Marian Seldes Quotes
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
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I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.
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When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.
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Acting takes so much energy.
