Eve Ensler Quotes
I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.
Quotes to Explore
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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What is art but the denial of life?
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He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.
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The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.
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There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
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One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
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I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
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I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.
