Bel Kaufman Quotes
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't.
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I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
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I thought this was the first game all year that I thought we deserved to win. I thought we did a great job. I think we brought our toughness to the table, and we just had a few things slip through our fingers.
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But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
