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 want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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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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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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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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I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
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It's possible to be hard-boiled and not noir, just as it's possible to be noir and not hard-boiled. And it is possible to be both. People debate endlessly what is hard-boiled and what is noir.
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'
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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.
