Sandra Bernhard Quotes
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
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For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
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It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.
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The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
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I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.