Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
