Ellen Barkin Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
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I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.
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A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
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They the Beatles came backstage after one of my lectures, and they said to me: 'Even from an early age we have been seeking a highly spiritual existence. We tried drugs and that didn't work.' They are such practical and intelligent young boys that it took them only two days to find that Transcendental Meditation is the answer.
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Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.
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I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
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George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
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I've always felt the need to pray...I would say that the office is so powerful that you need God even more.
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I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.
