Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
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I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.
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To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
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Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.
