Israel Zangwill Quotes
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
Quotes to Explore
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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I don't die in anything!
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Food can change anything.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Time will heal everything.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.
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I have never in my whole life had a fight with a smart person or even seen anybody else have one either. That is because when the fight starts the smart people are not there anymore. They have gone off someplace else, and when it is over they come back and tell you how much they did in the fight, only it is all lies.
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My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
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Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
