Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.'
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I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.
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On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.
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I neither approve nor disapprove. I merely try to understand. Sexual freedom is as natural to newly tribalized youth as drugs.
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
