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Ellen Barkin Quotes

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Ellen Barkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: April 16, 1955

Topics

Gift You Table Acting Know Build

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

Jim Elliot

Doing Trying Human Just Somebody

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Stephenie Meyer

Wind Reading Pride Not Knowing Gone

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

Purple Would Beggar Wrapped He

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

Lori Greiner

People Think Confident You Want Get

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Lou Rawls

Me Mean Something Happened Lyric

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

Christine Pelosi

Fight Equality Believe Say Immigrant

You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

Christopher Buckley

Car Police Red Ship View Data

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Brian d'Arcy James

Amazing Sister Laugh Comedy Someone

I used to be really scared to voice my opinion, whether it was with the other girls or just about an outfit I didn't like. I kept worrying what other people would think of me if they didn't agree. But I learned that I was just hurting myself.

Ally Brooke

Myself People Me Opinion Think Used

Here's something we're rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent.

Winnie Byanyima

Work Hard Work Talent Growing Up Up

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Peter Thiel

Stars Future Science City Society

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.

Rick Perry

Home Lawyer Call Going Criminal