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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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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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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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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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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Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
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I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.
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My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
