Judith Rossner Quotes
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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In July 1944, at the Mount Washington Hotel in the resort town of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White created the New World Order.
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A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
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'2.0' is an entirely new thing in Indian cinema, a movie to watch out for.
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I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.
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Every day I left that place I felt a little bit dirty about it.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
