Eve Babitz Quotes
I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
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I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.
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Good thing he’s not your boyfriend, though, Tina. He’s so skinny, I think a condom would pop right off.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
