Bernard Malamud Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
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In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
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I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.
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The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
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If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
