Estelle Parsons Quotes
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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I just want to compete and do what I love.
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The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important.
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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
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I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
