Christine Ebersole Quotes
Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.
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There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail.
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Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
