Chaim Potok Quotes
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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I've spent a lot of time being insecure about my body, but it's done so much for me. It's my tool, my vessel for my job.
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My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were very special, very elegant women, very beautiful women. They were my first step into the beauty world, let's say, and then the fashion world, of course.
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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
