Ellen Raskin Quotes
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
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My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
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Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.
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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.
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I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.
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Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
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There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.
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Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
