Ellen Barkin Quotes
When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
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Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.
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When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
