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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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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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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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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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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If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
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TV is the place that writers want to be.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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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.
