Eve Babitz Quotes
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.
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When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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Musicians are impossible.
