Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
Carine Roitfeld -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid -
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Callum Keith Rennie -
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
Rachel Kushner -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman -
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Nancy Werlin -
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer -
My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I just want to have a nice, happy life.
Orlando Bloom -
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Zoe Kazan -
We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
Federica Mogherini
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
Rita Ora -
I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
Idina Menzel -
I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only difference is the scale. People seem to think my problems are larger than life, but they're not larger than my life.
Billy Joel -
I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.
Elizabeth Wurtzel