Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.
Quotes to Explore
-
The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
-
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
-
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
-
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
-
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
-
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
-
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
-
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
-
The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
-
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
-
My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
-
Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
-
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
-
I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
-
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
-
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
-
What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.
-
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
-
I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.
-
Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.
-
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
-
I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.
-
As many of you know, my story begins where most people's in the LGBT+ community begins... with fear. I knew I was different from my peers, my friends, and those around me when I started to discover who I was and who I identified as from a young age.
-
I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.
