Ellen Willis Quotes
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.Ellen Willis
Quotes to Explore
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
Ed Sheeran -
There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
Malorie Blackman -
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
Usain Bolt -
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg -
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
Abraham Maslow -
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
Dana Carvey
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Jackie Mason -
I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
Katee Sackhoff -
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
Joanne Rowling -
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Taylor Caldwell -
I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
Laura Osnes
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine -
What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
Ed Wood -
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
Walter Cronkite -
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
Laura Dern -
It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
Laura Dern -
Experience is the basis of poetry.
Gerhart Hauptmann -
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
Corrie Ten Boom -
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
Ellen Willis