C. Elizabeth Quotes
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.
She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.
You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.
If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.
I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.
I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.
My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.
I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.
I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.
For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.
No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
