Cynthia Ozick Quotes
I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.
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Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.
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The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
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I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
