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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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.
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I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
