Chaim Potok Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'
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Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
