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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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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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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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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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 easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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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 think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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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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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
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This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
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For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome. Teacher Long People Training Quality Fool Realizing Awareness Remarkable Aim Ask Me Top Notch Paul Scholes Balls Hardest Looks Made Midfielders Notches Opponents Passing Passings Range Scholes Way Astonishing Asks Long Way To Go Long Way Seeing
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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.
