Eve Ensler Quotes
I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I love simplicity.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.
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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
