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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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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I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
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We’ve discussed this before. Not just other people saying yes, but whether they mean it, or whether they’re just doing it because they’re afraid.
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I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
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The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.
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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.
