Eve Ensler Quotes
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
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I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
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We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.
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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.
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Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
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I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
