Ellen Langer Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.
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I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
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You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.
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When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.
