Howard Jacobson Quotes

Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.

Howard Jacobson

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I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.

Joely Fisher

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You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Maurice Greene

ExperienceControlWinEndEasyYou

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Martin Scorsese

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Bars are about experience and interaction; so often, the people make the bar.

Jon Taffer

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I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

Christina Hendricks

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We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

Colin Trevorrow

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The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

Britt Ekland

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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Arthur Miller

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Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.

Winona Ryder

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You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

Shannon Hoon

YouTragedyEverythingUse

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

Tucker Max

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I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.

Tim Kaine

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