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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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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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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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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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 not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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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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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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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.
