Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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Great books are rare.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
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She tells me to 'live free and be free, but listen to other people's advice.' I listen, but I don't always follow it.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
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The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
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People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.
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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
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When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
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I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.
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Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'
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Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
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I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.
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Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
