Sandra Bernhard Quotes
The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Ball, Theater, Gesellschaft, Kartenspiel, Hasardspiel, Pferde, Weiber, Trinken, Reisen, … reicht dies Alles gegen die Langeweile nicht aus, wo Mangel an geistigen Bedürfnissen die geistigen Genüsse unmöglich macht. Daher auch ist dem Philister ein dumpfer, trockener Ernst, der sich dem thierischen nähert, eigen und charakteristisch.
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I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
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You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
