Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
The history of life thus consists of ‘long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.'
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.
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The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
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The history of life thus consists of ‘long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.'
