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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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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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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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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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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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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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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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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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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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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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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I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.
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A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
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I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.
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Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.
