Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
Quotes to Explore
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
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I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.
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I feel secure in my life, and I'm happy with where I'm at. I realise in some ways how enchanted my life's been. I could have ended up on a bench outside Stoke station begging for money. I was one of the lucky ones.
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It was always my goal to go back to MMA because my passion is there.
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Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
