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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Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
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If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.
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My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day stuff.
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Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
