Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
I started to 'write' even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw - horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I'm bisexual.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
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My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
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When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I'd like to die with my boots on.
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
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At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam, atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem,hoc est adverso nixantem trudere montesaxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursumvolvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi.
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'West Side Story' is one of the greatest theatrical experiences I've had.
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We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.
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There's no way to actually turn the rover off.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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I must admit I don't watch a lot of Adult Swim or Cartoon Network.
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I started to 'write' even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw - horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.
