Anzia Yezierska Quotes

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.

Anzia Yezierska

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Body

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Kids
  • True

• The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • Political
  • Eyes

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • Care

• If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Fight
  • Ego
  • Losing

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• And to his eyeThere was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Earth

• For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• Variety is the soul of pleasure.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Soul

• You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'

  

  Edward Everett
  • God
  • Power
  • Rest

• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Home
  • Book

• I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

  

  Kaki King
  • Different
  • Single
  • Simple

• I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Way
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Different
  • Age
  • Community