Esther M. Friesner Quotes
Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I'm very passionate.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.
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..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
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I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
