Edmond Jabes Quotes
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.
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George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
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Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
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A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Feminism without femininity is a sham.
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No, you don't wanna get me started. Jell-O with hair all in the mold. I'd be like, 'Damn, man, how are you gonna mess up Jell-O?' Jell-O is so wholesome and family-like. It just ruins it for me. To have a hair in there, yeah. I mean, I'm like, 'Come on, Bill Cosby pumps this, man!'
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What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
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We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
