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Elaine Stritch Quotes

There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: February 2, 1925 - July 17, 2014

Topics

Me Want Need Emotional Things Truly

It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.

Story Drawing Professional Sometimes

My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.

Work Day School Me Understanding

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

You Look Emotions Reflect Your Each

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

Best Man Amazing Me Speak Laugh

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.

Moment Learn Enough Camera You Find

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Minoru Yamasaki

Walls Red Better You Look White

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Work Keep Going New York Writing New

I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.

Conflict Underdog Say Playing Idea

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

Game Hurt You Know Important Out

Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Diversity Problem You Lose Look

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

Doing Stop New Never Never Stop

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

Alice McDermott

Faith Me Talk Without Institution

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