Ellen Burstyn Quotes
My mother was very glamorous. She was very beautiful, and she had a lot of friends; she was fun and loved to drink.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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I'm a woman and a person of color; I know what it's like out there in the workplace.
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I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.
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Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
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It is natural to die as to be born.
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I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.
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My mother was very glamorous. She was very beautiful, and she had a lot of friends; she was fun and loved to drink.
