Elaine Pagels Quotes
Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my 'accomplishments' from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.
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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
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I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.
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I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.
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Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.
