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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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
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Truth is its own reward.
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Those five members of the Supreme Court found a nonsensical distinction; that doesn't mean that Florida state legislators or state supreme court judges are required to play the semantic games that Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia did to reach the result they desired.
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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.
