Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
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Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus.
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My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
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I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
