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'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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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 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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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.
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I loved the Dixie Chicks. They were always so fun.
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For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.
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Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?
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My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
