Eban Goodstein Quotes
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.
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I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.
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Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
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I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
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I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.
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I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.
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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
