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Ellen Burstyn Quotes

It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to support an actress the way he backed and supported me. He even asked me if I wanted to direct the film, which I didn't feel prepared to at that point.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1932

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Together Support Me Feel Interesting

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

Game Think Fighting Loudest Excited

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Character Truth Me Better Play

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

Life Live Great My Life Look Early

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

Enough Must Movie Righteous Also

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I Am Brave Strong Out Anything Big

I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Myself People Think Feel I Can Know

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Relationship Doing Feeling Possible

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

Confidence Best Training Brother Me

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Time Yellow Sun Writing Train Play

The NBA is the best league in the world. It's no way you're going to be able to fill the void that the energy of performing before 20,000 people every night gives you. That's just impossible. So, I just try and move on from that and let it be a moment in time and leave it alone.

Alone Time Moment Best People World

Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.

Cornelia Parker

Angry Me Seems Vain He Makes

If you watch wrestling like I do, you watch for the wrestling. There's so much talking. There's some 'twit' back there with a pencil behind his ear writing down all these things for wrestlers to say.

Writing Talking You Back Down Say

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