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.

Ellen Burstyn

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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Gratitude
  • Emotions

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• All that we are not stares back at what we are.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Power
  • Political

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Great
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dreams

• What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Long
  • Way

• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Respect
  • Literature

• Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Wish
  • Never
  • Born

• I've had Christians treat me in a way that is so wrong and so vicious, I realized there's a difference between God's people and God.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • People
  • God

• Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • People
  • Up
  • Decision

• To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Love
  • Giving

• The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Ellen Burstyn