Marian Seldes Quotes
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
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What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
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And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
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I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.
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I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
