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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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 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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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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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.
