Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
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Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.
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When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.
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The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
