Ellen Burstyn Quotes
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I like to rap about things that are funny but mostly things that are relatable. I remember there was this one song with Ja Rule, and I forgot, exactly, but it was with Ashanti, and there's a line in it that was like, 'She hit me up on AIM.' But that wasn't the actual line; it was something else, but I was like, 'Oh my God, he uses AIM!'
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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.
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She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
