Ellen Goodman Quotes

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

Ellen Goodman

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All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Jeff Bezos

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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner

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If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

Rob Walton

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We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Rupert Everett

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My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

Missi Pyle

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I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Jules Shear

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I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.

Jay DeMarcus

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Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.

Josh Hawley

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Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Diana Wynne Jones

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I'm going to keep working hard, and I will be happy to play anywhere for the country. I'm young and would like to play anywhere.

Dele Alli

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Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

Christian Marclay

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