Ehud Olmert Quotes
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I like a quiet life.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.
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I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.
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I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
