Ellen Bass Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
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The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
