Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we were suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.
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You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.
