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 cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
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I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
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I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
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The more things change, the more they stay different.
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
