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 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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I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.
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Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
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She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
