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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Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.
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The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether 'Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth.
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Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
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I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.
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I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
