Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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I really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors in the country. You know, that's very insulting. I'm striving to be one of the best anchors in the country. Handcuff me like that. What you're saying is, 'You're black. You should only expect to rise to the level of the best at being black.'
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My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
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Both in verse and in prose Karl Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: 'But he hasn’t any clothes on!' about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
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I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
