Ellyn Stern Quotes
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
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My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
