Ezra Furman Quotes
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
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I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
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There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
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I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.
