Marian Seldes Quotes
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
