Anzia Yezierska Quotes
If you're real, you've never got anything to hide away from. You're not trying to fake anything, you're not trying to have this other persona - you're just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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I've had a great ride. I've got no complaints.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
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We have never asked for anything. We need money. Cash.
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
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There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
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I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
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If you're real, you've never got anything to hide away from. You're not trying to fake anything, you're not trying to have this other persona - you're just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.
