Janet Malcolm Quotes
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.
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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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Listen to me brother! bring the
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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Acting is way of making yourself exist.
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We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.
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You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.
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I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
