Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
Ellen Burstyn
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton
3LW
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
Carly Fiorina
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
Karen Finerman
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It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Zubin Mehta
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Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul’s evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.
Eugene J. Martin
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I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.
Cilla Black
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
Louis Theroux
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It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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'And this,' said Cæsar, 'you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.'
Plutarch
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I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
Ellen Burstyn
