Israel Zangwill Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
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Everyone has some kind of light inside them.
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It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.
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For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.
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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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How could you not wanna be in 'Doctor Who' at least once in your career?
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I find it infuriating that in this industry, size 10 and above is defined as 'plus size,' especially when the average dress size in the U.K. is a 16.
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The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen, or they think from an educational standpoint that something is about to happen because of all the moving parts, it is your job to break that expectation and show the audience something different.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
