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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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.
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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.
