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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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
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147, on the situation in Greece: 'imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis.'
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Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.
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She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
