Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I never left doo wop.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.
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With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.
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Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.
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For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
