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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Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.
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Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.
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There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.
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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.
