Alfred Kazin Quotes
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.
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I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
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Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
