Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972.
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
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We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
