Ellen Barkin Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.
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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
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No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.
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What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like him or not, but he lives his way. He does the things he has identified as worthy for him and he is not trying to be everybody’s darling. At least he doesn’t give that impression. He is straightforward and honest and he tells you if he has a bad day. Period. He is real. He’s not political. He’s never up to something. If he doesn’t want to tell you something he will say so and not hum and haw. He doesn’t beat around the bush, never coming to the point.
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Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.
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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
