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Israel Zangwill Quotes

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Israel Zangwill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: January 21, 1864 - August 1, 1926

Topics

Past Prison Repetition Glamour Well

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

Joe Manganiello

Change School People Me Saying Name

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love Truth Genius First Last

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

Melissa Rosenberg

Beginning Tired Ending Story Think

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

John Lennon

Live People Society Wrong Living

I have some NASA memorabilia from the early Apollo days that I can't imagine parting with. I've always wanted to play sort of like a space cowboy, too, like the idea of Captain Kirk. I think that's everybody's dream though, right?

Matthew Daddario

Space Think Early Dream Play NASA

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Jeff Daniels

Action Emotion Human Anything Really

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

Amanda Plummer

Love Music Death College Enough

My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.

Sonita Alizadeh

Marriage Child Face Friends Real

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

Ruben Studdard

Mother Yourself People Me Opinion

When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy Day.' A new child often inspires duplicate gifts - we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on - but this one was different.

Rumaan Alam

Son Day Child People Baby Present

We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.

DJ Khaled

Win Loss Hard Take Going Get

Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in.

Dominic Holland

Money Better Comedy Environment You