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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Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.
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Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.
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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.
