Eve Ensler Quotes
Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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I am frequently attacked.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie - that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.
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I'm just very good at pretending.
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The country crowd just has fun.
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London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.
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I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
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You need to set a tone at the top that inspires trust - and encourages open and honest 2-way communication. So you hear the brutal facts, and you listen to the good news and the bad news - so that, in the spirit of continuous improvement, you can make changes.
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If people don't like it my music now, they will.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.
