Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
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In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.
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I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.
