Ori Gersht Quotes

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Ori Gersht

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Age
  • Father
  • Religion

• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Life
  • Important
  • Sports

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • War
  • Elements
  • Diplomacy

• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • Child
  • Talent

• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • Past
  • Best

• I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Wish

• I can appreciate other writers' works.

  

  Clive Cussler

• I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Drama

• If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Law
  • Bound
  • Constrain

• My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Work
  • Observation
  • U.S.