Avi Quotes
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
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I was a little hesitant to do 'Love & Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.
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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
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Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.
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I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
