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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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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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 am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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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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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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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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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.
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I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.
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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.
