Ellen Burstyn Quotes

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

Ellen Burstyn

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I got my first real job, one that didn't involve wearing a hairnet or bending over the hood of a wet car with a towel in my hand, in the early '90s working for CBS Records. While there, I started my first of several rock bands and eventually wrote my first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, 'Don't Sleep With Your Drummer.'

Jen Sincero

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I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

Ann Beattie

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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike

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I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

Sprague Grayden

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Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Sloane Crosley

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Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

Tony Fadell

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I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Lucas Till

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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.

Chris Bohjalian

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People aren't making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it.

Brian J. Smith

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I love a good monochromatic moment with doors/walls. I think it looks great!

Bobby Berk

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I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

Win Butler

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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

William Peter Blatty

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