Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
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Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
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I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.
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Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
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Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'
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It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.
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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
