Zach Woods Quotes
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.
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I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
