Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.
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The unity is brought about by force.
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'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
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Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.
