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I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves. Eve Ensler

Life Work People Would Entire Entire Life Argue Involved Been Very Done Movements Little Social Themselves Many Activism Activist

When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it. Eve Ensler

Good World Value Live Constantly Seemed Had Like Also Wrote Because Judging End End Of The World Stomach Turned Body Suddenly

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing. Eve Ensler

Love Me You Hate People Try Think Hung About Also Because Got Doing Up Get Love You Then Who

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain. Eve Ensler

Change Fight World Strong Better Think Change The World Had Make Equally Always Very Artist Currents Being Different Wanting Which Strain Then Injustices Violence Two

But what is past my help is past my care. Francis Beaumont

Care Past Help

You are no better than you should be. Francis Beaumont

You Better Than Should

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. Francis Beaumont

Faith Bird Fly Will Earth Though Hop Wings Never Like She Without May Heaven Them Companions Works Her

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. Francis Beaumont

People Some People Others Some Blind Makes Interest

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Francis Beaumont

Nothing Sweet Melancholy Lovely Dainty

Bad's the best of us. Francis Beaumont

Best Bad Us

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. Francoise Sagan

Music Feeling Jazz Intensified Jazz Music

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. Francoise Sagan

Life Time Writing Three Life Is A Jazz Progression Characters Tells Arbitrary Finding Oneself Feels Like Sort Question Rhythm Rhythmic Rhythms Much Certain Less Compare

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. Francoise Sagan

Life Art Great Illusion Believe Exactly Great Literature True Make True Life Course Opposite Very Close Formal Literature

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. Francoise Sagan

Speak Humor Laughter Power Enough Virtues Dangers Never Shared

I always believe things are going to work out. Francoise Sagan

Work Hope Believe Out Always Going Work Out Things

I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing. Frank D. Gilroy

I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels. Frank D. Gilroy

Time Remember Wait Made Tremendous Tremendous Amount Would Could Idea Ideas How Movies Realize Novels Play Wasted Amount

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