Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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I get depressed at airports.
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I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.
