Edmond Jabes Quotes
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Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.
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Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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Music has always been profoundly important to me.
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I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.
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You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
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Does surviving mean living on life, living on a dead life, living death all life long?
