Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
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We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'
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I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
