Ellen Forney Quotes
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
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I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
