Netta (Netta Barzilai) Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I never was a very good singer.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
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I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
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I don’t want to let my country down, now that expectations are so high.
