Ezra Furman Quotes

Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.

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• The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

  

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• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

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• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

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• As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

  

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• Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

  

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• I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

  

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• Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

  

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• The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

  

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• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

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• Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping.

  

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• Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Figure
  • Bisexual
  • Spectrum