Events Quote by Ellen Barkin

“I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.”

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There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

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You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother,…

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I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to…

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I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really?…

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You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

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My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

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History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

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My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington…

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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make…

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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his…

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer…

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Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his…

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not…

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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

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