Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
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When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered me a job on her tour playing acoustic guitar and singing background vocals, and they thought I would be a really good fit for it.
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I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
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Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
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I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good.
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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.
