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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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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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'
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There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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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.
