Anzia Yezierska Quotes
My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it - saying I am so much older and my crow's feet are showing.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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Pretty much I love all types of fish; I pretty much stick with that. I love vegetables. I don't eat too much carbs, but I love salads, though. I'll usually have a salad, except for breakfast.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
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I don't really get recognised very much.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it - saying I am so much older and my crow's feet are showing.
