Cynthia Ozick Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
