David Irving Quotes
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
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There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
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No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
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Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
