Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.
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You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
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My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
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I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.
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Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
