Isaac Rosenberg Quotes
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
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I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
