Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.

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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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Whites have traded their culture for power.
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It's nice to be able to go do what I love and come home - and get in my own bed.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.