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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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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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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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.
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As a state sponsor of global terrorism and supplier of weapons to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons capabilities.
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My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.
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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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If you think about it, player for player we are fairly huge. It's rare when you can put that type of lineup in and mix in some size and athleticism.
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I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
