Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.
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After my mother passed away, I really felt there were things that I hadn't said or things that I did say that I kind of regretted saying.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.
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Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
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I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
