Bernard Malamud Quotes
I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, and then I'll just pat it on the back, and that's it. I promise you, I don't use hair spray, I don't go crazy with products. I just wake up, flip it, and boom, I go bowling.
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Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
