Bel Kaufman Quotes
Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
Quotes to Explore
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
-
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
-
I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
-
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
-
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
-
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
-
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
-
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
-
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
-
Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
-
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
-
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
-
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
-
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
-
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
-
Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
-
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
-
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
-
But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
-
It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
-
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
-
Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
