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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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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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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It is better to do too much than to do too little.
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Whenever I guard a guard, I don't want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.
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Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.
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I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
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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.
