Estelle Parsons Quotes
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.
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I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
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The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
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Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.
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The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
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I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.
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I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.
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It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
