Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.
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'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.
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The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
