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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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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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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I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.
