Eileen Wilks Quotes
Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
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I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.
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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
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I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.
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I want to be a part of a winning culture.
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One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
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I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
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You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.
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I love to dance and dance all night long.
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People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.
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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
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Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.
