Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
