Ellen Barkin Quotes
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.Ellen Barkin
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
Cameron Mackintosh -
When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
Zach Anner -
I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
Eddie Izzard -
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
Yaya DaCosta -
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
Naveen Jain -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett -
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Carl Wilson -
I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
Yolandi Visser -
I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
Jack Gleeson -
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
Naomi Judd -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon -
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
Zac Brown Band -
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
Gates McFadden -
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
Natalie Massenet
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
Maggie Lawson -
So, when the last and dreadful HourThis crumbling Pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And musick shall untune the Sky.
John Dryden -
There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
Ian Lustick -
What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
Wallace Stevens -
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
Ellen Barkin