Uri Shulevitz Quotes
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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English is not my first language.
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Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.
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America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
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Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.
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I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.
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In a sense the present work is to be regarded as a secondary-study of the work of a group of writers in the field of social theory. But the genus 'secondary study' comprises several species; of these an example of only one, and that perhaps not the best known, is to be found in these pages.
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it. Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.
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If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
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Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.
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There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.
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It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
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I never swan in and preach from on high. It always starts with an ample amount of practical information.
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Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.
