Deborah Moggach Quotes
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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Women overwhelmingly support conservative policies.
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I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
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If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
