Ellen Burstyn Quotes

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

  

  Kate Dickie
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  • Turn

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
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• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  

  Karen Bass
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  • Community
  • Office

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
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• We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
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• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
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• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
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• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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  • Reality
  • Reading

• I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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  • Textbooks
  • Scientology

• One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Believe
  • Media
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• Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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• When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

  

  John Burdett
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• The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
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• All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
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