Cynthia Ozick Quotes
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.
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Unthankfulness is theft.
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I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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I've never been the person who's like, 'I've got to get a four-pack of abs!' And I'm not the type to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 45 minutes and then lift weights.
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I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
