Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
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You can't trust anybody with power.
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.
