Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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I try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
