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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But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.
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Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.
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I'm an only child, and after making the movie Yours, Mine and Ours, I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.
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One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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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.
