Marian Seldes Quotes
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
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Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.
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If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
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I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.
