Eve Ensler Quotes
I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.
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For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a strategem.
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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.
