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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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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 had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.
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The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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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.
