Ellen Willis Quotes
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
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Holy Joe: And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts
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She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.
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I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.
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SPORT Magazine's All-Time All Stars (Quentin Reynolds)
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Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
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Through them his paintings I breathe again.
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It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.
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I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
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Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.
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I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
