Eve Ensler Quotes
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.
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I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.
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Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.
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Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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Woman! Come out! I have - " She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
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The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.
