Nissim Ezekiel Quotes
The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.
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The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
