Estelle Parsons Quotes
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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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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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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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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
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Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know...
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Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
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I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.