Ellen Barkin Quotes
I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
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I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.
