#come

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#civilization #his #individuality #narrow-minded #situation

So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like - some people want to dance when you come out, some people just want to be intimate with you. So you kind of feel your way through a show. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#because #certain #certain kinds #change #come

The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child. ↗

— Weston Locher

#comedy #essay #funny #humor #death

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bird #closest #come #flying #machines

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. ↗

— Will Arnett

#cancel #comedy #gonna #great #hit

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#camera #comes #end #film #get

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#boring #challenging #characters #creative #creative person

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well. ↗

— Rob Paulsen

#character #characteristics #doing #i #job