Eve Ensler Quotes
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.Eve Ensler
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine -
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny -
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
Carl D. Anderson -
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Tariq Ramadan -
I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
Mandy Moore
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
Harley Viera-Newton -
Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
Daisy Ridley -
I've laid my friends bare.
Joanne Rowling -
My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
Rachel Sklar -
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. Abrams -
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride
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The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.
Josh Turner -
He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
Rachel Caine -
The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
T. H. White -
Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie -
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.
Joanne Rowling
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An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
Uri Shulevitz -
I've loved all forms of animation.
Ming-Na Wen -
Being on Twitter is like having a fern.
Steve Martin -
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
Eve Ensler