“I understand the world… I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.”
Interview (2003).
Context: I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
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American actress 1931–2005Related quotes
“I guess people don't understand that I'm just a person.”
1970s
“There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.”
After performing with Eminem at the 2001 Grammy awards
Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th (2007)
“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
Source: Saving Francesca
Tripzine.com interview with McKenna http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?smlid=129
Letter to Morton Kelsey (1958) as quoted by Morton Kelsey, Myth, History & Faith: The Mysteries of Christian Myth & Imagination (1974) Ch.VIII
Her comment when she was to turn 60
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009
Nature and the Greeks (1954)
Context: The scientific world-picture vouchsafes a very complete understanding of all that happens — it makes it just a little too understandable. It allows you to imagine the total display as that of a mechanical clockwork which, for all that science knows, could go on just the same as it does, without there being consciousness, will, endeavor, pain and delight and responsibility connected with it — though they actually are. And the reason for this disconcerting situation is just this: that for the purpose of constructing the picture of the external world, we have used the greatly simplifying device of cutting our own personality out, removing it; hence it is gone, it has evaporated, it is ostensibly not needed.
“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight