Eve Ensler Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
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Landscape affects you.
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
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I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
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I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.
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The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you.
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You will know your path by the fun of it.
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If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
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I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.
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I really want to help stop violence toward women.
