Eve Ensler Quotes
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I'm always challenged by someone.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
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For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.
