Chaim Potok Quotes
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
Quotes to Explore
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.
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When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
