Ellen Burstyn Quotes
With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going to happen in five hours. So I'm not really worried about it. I'm just focused on doing what I can at this moment.
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My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.
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She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
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I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.
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While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.
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Film is a very expensive medium.
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With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.
