Jerry Saltz Quotes
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
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He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.
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I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
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What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.
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Mom always got me to school and the driving range while Dad was working. She also kept me quiet and humble. Both of them taught me to let my golf do the talking.
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
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Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
