Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.
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We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
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Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.
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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
