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Ellen Burstyn

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."

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Donna Grant

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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Donna Grant

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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Donna Grant

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

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Donna Grant

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

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Donna Grant

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

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Donna Grant

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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Donna Grant

"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

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Donna Grant

"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."

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Donna Grant

"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."

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Donna Grant

"I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding."

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Ellen Burstyn
"It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one."

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Ellen Burstyn
"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."

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Ellen Burstyn
"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."

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Ellen Burstyn
"Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'"

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Ellen Burstyn
"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

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Ellen Burstyn
"Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave."

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Ellen Burstyn
"So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'"

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Ellen Burstyn
"I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!"

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Ellen Burstyn
"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."

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Ellen Burstyn
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

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