Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

Elfriede Jelinek

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I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?

Joe Pesci

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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.

Jeremy Denk

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I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

Megan Mullally

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I'm from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.

Anjelah Johnson

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For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.

Jean Nidetch

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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

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I have a passion to do theater.

Amy Irving

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I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

Sloane Crosley

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As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.

Mirai Nagasu

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I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

Lucy Deakins

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It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps - and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.

Dionne Bromfield

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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Don King

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