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Eve Ensler Quotes

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Eve Ensler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1953

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Truth Weird You Lying Strange Tell

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

Jim Lee

World Artist Alien Create Possible

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

Jenny Slate

Live Time New York Night Saturday

I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.

Jenova Chen

Friends Games Always Playing Got

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

John Perry Barlow

Technology Government Window Privacy

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

College Los Angeles Living Nothing

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Roger Ebert

Time Depressed Lack Panicked

I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.

Michael Robotham

Dreams Children Sleep Bad Always

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

Joni Mitchell

Family Me Gold Silver Box Get

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

Dorothy Allison

Day Job You Want Living Blunt

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

Arlo Guthrie

Style Two Order Complex Beatles Far

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anthony Anderson

Family Funny House Nobody Leave Our

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

Tina Brown

Beautiful King Choice Royal British