Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it well, but you have to take it in the right sense. It is part and parcel of being in the industry.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.
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The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.
