Eve Ensler Quotes
I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
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Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.
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You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
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It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.
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This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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I still haven't found that automatic robot to pump out the perfect performances. That is something I am still searching for.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
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I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.
