Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly-communicable diseases and his mother's age.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
