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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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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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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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
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I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.
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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
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For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.
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If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
