Estelle Parsons Quotes
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
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I'm very inspired by past music.
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
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It's rare to meet somebody who's secure with herself, confident in who they are, and doesn't have anything to apologize for.
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I love to watch how scientists' minds work.
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I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
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I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
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I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
