A. B. Yehoshua Quotes
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
