Eve Ensler Quotes

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

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• Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Job
  • Quality

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Different
  • Roles
  • System

• Failure is a part of success.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• When he died I had a moment of grief that lasted about five minutes. It was very intense, then never again. Not because I forced myself, but I think it was because he caused us too much pain.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Pain
  • Grief

• A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.

  

  W. H. Auden

• I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.

  

  Luise Rainer
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Proud

• We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Age
  • Sales

• Since the 1970s, I've been a big fan of attending conferences as a great way to learn, network, socialize and enjoy a new environment. It's always refreshing to get out and see a whole new world.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • World
  • Great
  • Environment

• I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Experience

• Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

  

  Arthur C. Nielsen
  • Economy
  • Accuracy
  • Reliability

• I just really work hard on myself every day.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Work

• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  

  Bram Fischer

• Georgia has some really tough allergies.

  

  Brooke Elliott

• Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Time
  • Funny
  • College

• I'm from the suburbs, really, so I actually didn't go to Montreal until I was, like, 19. I wasn't allowed to go to the city at night or really be in the scene with other producers. It was hard for my parents to understand what I was trying to do as an artist, but it didn't stop me. They eventually saw that it wasn't a joke.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Parents

• We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it's almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Friends
  • Think
  • City

• In our travels, we have come across many equations - math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Music
  • Important
  • Simple

• I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Friend
  • Mountains
  • YouTube