S. Ansky Quotes
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.
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If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.
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Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
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Many of us don’t distinguish between the acts of listening and hearing.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
