Elyn Saks Quotes
In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.
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My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.
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I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
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In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
