Eva Zeisel Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I never sing in the shower either.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
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I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.
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People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'
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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
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'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's a great movie. I love the music in it. I love the actors.
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My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
