Cynthia Ozick Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.
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You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
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Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
