Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.
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Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask 'What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask what do you love?
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If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.
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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
