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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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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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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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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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
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The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
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The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.
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'This is the core of the galaxy,' Horseface said. 'This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.'
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We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
