Eve Ensler Quotes
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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These left me in no doubt that something was trying to communicate with us, but that direct communication would be counterproductive. It seemed to be an important part of the scheme to create a sense of mystery.
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I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.
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You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
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I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.
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Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
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Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.
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We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
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In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.
