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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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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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
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My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
