Estelle Parsons Quotes
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
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It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
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You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
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I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.
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A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
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We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.
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I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
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I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
