Ellen Barkin Quotes
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.
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There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
