Bel Kaufman Quotes
It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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The laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
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Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.
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Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
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It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.
