Elinor Lipman Quotes

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Elinor Lipman

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And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

Robert Scheer

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Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.

Robert Gottlieb

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I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

Steve Jones

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Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

Steve Martin

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John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

Mary Doria Russell

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I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I studied science. And I had a group of friends who were heavily into music and theatre.

Mohit Chauhan

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I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

Jose Ferreira

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Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.

Johnny Weir

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I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.

Chris Martin

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We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

Pim Fortuyn

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There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

Shelley Long

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