Bel Kaufman Quotes
I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
