Ellen Barkin Quotes
My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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My father is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and always wanted to work or star in a remake of any of his film. But he didn't get the opportunity.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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Your memory is not my memory.
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We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed.
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We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.
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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
