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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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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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 I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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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.
