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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When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
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I grew up in the Midwest and never really felt at home there, and when I got to New York, I was really fearless. I feel like I really fell in love with the the place. But then, it's a place where your world is really big at first and then becomes really small. I found myself hardly leaving my neighborhood, like I made it into a small town.
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I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.
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Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
