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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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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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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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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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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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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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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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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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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At the structural level, when the primary is all that matters, the incentives change for politicians. And, when you can earn media coverage with bombast and vitriol, that creates another incentive for politicians to light things on fire.
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Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.
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Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
