Elizabeth Gilbert — she of Eat, Pray, Love fame; she who starts her Facebook posts with "Dear Ones:" like she knows us; she who seems to admit that her personal happiness is her goal supreme — I call her the cilantro of writers. 4. "You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words."— Elizabeth Gilbert
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." "Of course the people don't want war.
Ahead of Rhod Gilbert's string of shows in Cardiff this weekend, we've put together some of the best quotes from the Welsh comedian's previous stand-up tours. The new series of Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience is also coming to the BBC next week (Monday May 7, 22:25).
Liz (that's what I call her now that we're all chummy) was asked about the challenges she faced when her life was in some ways turned upside down with the enormous success of "Eat,Pray, Love." Her take on it was that it was really awesome and although maybe some things were different she was only going to celebrate how great it was, rather than make something of the bad bits. Liz's perspective on this was interesting as she said that she was actually hugely relieved when her next book Committed came out after Eat, Pray, Love because it was finally out there and the build up was gone and people could just move on (rather than being nervous about what people would think and would they compare).
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