Aharon Appelfeld Quotes
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.
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Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
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But when you think: Tim McGraw,I hope you think my favorite song.The one we danced to all night long:The moon like a spotlight on the lake.When you think happiness,I hope you think: 'That little black dress.'Think of my head on your chest,An' my old faded blue jeans.When you think Tim McGraw,I hope you think of me.
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My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
