Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid.
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I can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.
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There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.
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Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.