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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I like to discover new things.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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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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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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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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Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.
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I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
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I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
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What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.
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Merlin was five years of my life. I enjoyed every year, every day. I had a brilliant time on it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to do more.
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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.
