Bernard Malamud Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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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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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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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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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
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I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.
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Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.
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If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
