Marian Seldes Quotes
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.
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My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.
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It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
