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.
Yair Lapid -
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall -
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
Lara St. John -
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
Victor Borge -
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
Eartha Kitt
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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.
Parminder Nagra -
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.
Walter Kirn -
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.
Laura Donnelly -
Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
Ira Sachs -
If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
Karl Pilkington -
If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.
Lara Stone
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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?
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Oona Chaplin -
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.
Yann Martel -
The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
Karen Elson -
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. Donleavy -
My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
David Guetta -
When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.
Danny Ainge -
I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.
Ed Bradley -
You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.
David O. Russell -
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
Janet Malcolm