Ellen Barkin Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I do want to lose weight. But not because anyone is telling me to do it.
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A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.
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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
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I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.
