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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I don't know the right way to retire.
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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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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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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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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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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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The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
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Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
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Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezzafesse creando, e a la sua bontatepiù conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza,fu de la volontà la libertate;di che le creature intelligenti,e tutte e sole, fuore e son dotate.
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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.
