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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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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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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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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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
