Eve Ensler Quotes
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Fear controls you.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.
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Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.
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Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.
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I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
