Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.
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Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?
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It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
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I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.
