A. B. Yehoshua Quotes
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Quotes to Explore
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.
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I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
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The difference between winning this game and losing it is, you might say, the difference between facing big games now and desperation games.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
