- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that my mother's life was cut short is something that pushes me to always move forward and live the best life I possibly can. In a way, I feel like I can take her along with me through every experience, and in that sense, her beautiful energy and spirit will live on.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
- Nov 07, 2020
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
- Vote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020