Bernard Malamud Quotes
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.'
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.'
