Ellen Barkin Quotes
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
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My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
