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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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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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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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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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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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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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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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
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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.
