Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!
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I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.
