Harley Pasternak Quotes
The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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I love books.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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I never responded to teaching.
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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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Veterans Day is a time to celebrate the men and women who have worn this nation's uniform and to honor their service.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.
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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.
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The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.
