Zoe Kazan Quotes

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

Zoe Kazan

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• Laughing
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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
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• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
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• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
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• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
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• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
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• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
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• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Writing
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• The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Fool

• It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
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• The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
  • Life
  • Good
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• Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.

  

  John Kricfalusi

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing