Elaine Stritch Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.
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I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
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I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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My worry was if I hit the road unhappy, that I'd end up in jail or hospital again. It was saddening, but it was never a career move; I had no job to go to!
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If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.
