Eve Babitz Quotes
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.
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Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy.
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Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 'Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There'.
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That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
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Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam.
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The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.
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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
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I built a relationship and a rapport with Muhammad Ali, and I could never top that experience.
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It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.
