Eda LeShan Quotes
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
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I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.
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On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
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I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To which Quine is said to have responded: Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.
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What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
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Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
