Anzia Yezierska Quotes

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

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• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Different
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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Society
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• Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

  

  Laila Robins
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• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Like
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  • Scared

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
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• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
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• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
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• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Time
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• Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

  

  Aesop
  • Wolf

• My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
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• People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
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• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

  

  Andre Breton

• I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
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• In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

  

  Lionel Shriver

• I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Time
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  • Die

• All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perfect

• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Think
  • Game
  • Air

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
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  • Party

• Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Father
  • Poor
  • Prophet