Bernard L. Schwartz Quotes
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
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’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
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I expose people to magic, I expose them to something they're never otherwise going to see in their boring normal lives.
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I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.
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I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.
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I am comfortable with who I am as a person. I've never felt that pressure of feeling like I need to fit into something else or be something else because that's not me. I work out and I'm healthy, but that's not to lose weight; that's just to feel good.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.
