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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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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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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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
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Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.
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Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.
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Das Wahre ist das Ganze.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
