Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
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My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
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Aimer, c'est agir
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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The chemistry you get from playing live with a band is unique.
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I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.
