Zachary Lazar Quotes
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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The cinema saved me from being a delinquent. I could have been, but I didn't get caught up. I never was going to get arrested or anything.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
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I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested I was in the possibilities in writing a poetry that applied formal and substantive options of narrative and non-narrative, lyric and non-lyric. I found many pleasures in this kind of writing. The long poem is as old as the art form.
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Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
