Ellen Forney Quotes
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.
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Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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I am sure that entering the exchange rate mechanism was absolutely right and is still right. I regret that we did not do so five years earlier, but that is history. Economic monetary union must come as soon as possible, and with it the single currency. Industry wants the single currency, and we must pay attention to the requests and demands of industry.
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
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I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.