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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Family
  • Love
  • House

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Political
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• 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.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • American
  • English

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• 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.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• 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!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• 'When will you stop this metaphysical nonsense?' said Edward wearily. 'But I suppose you’ve no other way to look at the matter, born as you were in an age of superstitious piety.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Age
  • Stop

• I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

  

  James Belushi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• The competitor in me wants to play, but it's not my job to make that decision. That's what the coaches are paid for.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Job
  • Decision

• You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Illusion
  • Infinite
  • Fleeing

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • People
  • Reading
  • Pain