Eli Siegel Quotes
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
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In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
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I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.
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My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.
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I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
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Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
