Elaine Stritch Quotes
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
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I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.
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Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.
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I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.
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Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.
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Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it's not a good reason to leave the E.U.
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I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
