Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I miss baseball.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.
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We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.
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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
