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I no longer run barefoot.
ZOLA BUDD I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public st...
ZOLA BUDD Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
ZOLA BUDD Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it...
ZOLA BUDD I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
ZOLA BUDD Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a ...
ZOLA BUDD I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it ...
ZOLA BUDD I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
HAROLD BUDD Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions t...
HAROLD BUDD I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
HAROLD BUDD You can't eat your friends and have them too.
BUDD SCHULBERG Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
BUDD SCHULBERG Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
BUDD SCHULBERG But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
HAROLD BUDD Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with...
BUDD SCHULBERG You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tou...
BUDD SCHULBERG Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
BUDD SCHULBERG Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lo...
BUDD SCHULBERG Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the ...
BUDD SCHULBERG Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on
BUDD SCHULBERG [But his father begged him not to publish the book.] L.B. Mayer called me a traitor, ... 'I blame yo...
BUDD SCHULBERG I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,
BUDD SCHULBERG As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
BUDD SCHULBERG It's been a total team effort. On this team, one guy steps up after another. They've got each other'...
BUDD DITCHENDORF Our players are loose and are a confident bunch. They are approaching the championship game in a bus...
BUDD DITCHENDORF I'm numb. I didn't think this was going to happen. We knew we were going to play our best. They pick...
BUDD DITCHENDORF I knew this team had more than most teams. To find a new level of more in the playoffs is a pinnacle...
BUDD DITCHENDORF They've got a couple of big goal scorers. They'll be our biggest challenge yet.
BUDD DITCHENDORF They're not intimidated. It's so relaxed.
BUDD DITCHENDORF The offense has been consistent as it's ever been.
BUDD DITCHENDORF I feel like our substitute players really worked hard in the second half to get us back in the match...
BUDD DITCHENDORF Our kids love to play here. They wanted to have their best game after losing in the first round. Thi...
BUDD DITCHENDORF Taylor came up big, especially on the penalty kicks. He loves his job and was phenomenal.
BUDD DITCHENDORF Each time they get on the court now, they get better and better. They're playing really well.
BUDD BOOTH There are a lot of really talented teams out there for team tennis. And they all have kind of unique...
BUDD BOOTH That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot...
BUDD BOOTH She's definitely a leader on the team and has been having a great season. We have a talented group t...
BUDD BOOTH She continues to improve and is definitely one of the strongest singles players in the region.
BUDD BOOTH Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
BUDD SCHULBERG You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
BUDD SCHULBERG It's like being given a powerful sports car. When they finally get a high-performance knife, they hu...
BUDD SOLAEGUI People will steel out of habit. And what they're doing is grinding their knives away.
BUDD SOLAEGUI The problem with using an electric sharpener is that it's not controlled by hand.
BUDD SOLAEGUI The real difficulty will be creating 1,900 good jobs for workers with high school diplomas ? full-ti...
JOHN BUDD Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a litt...
BUDD SCHULBERG It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.
BUDD SCHULBERG I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say...
BUDD SCHULBERG I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
BUDD SCHULBERG Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
BUDD SCHULBERG Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
BUDD SCHULBERG You can't eat your friends and have them too.
BUDD SCHULBERG Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with...
BUDD SCHULBERG Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
BUDD SCHULBERG I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
ZOLA JESUS True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic cont...
ZOLA JESUS I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
ZOLA JESUS I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
ZOLA JESUS The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate...
ZOLA JESUS My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking ov...
ZOLA JESUS I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was p...
ZOLA JESUS No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
ZOLA JESUS I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she i...
ZOLA JESUS The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same ...
ZOLA JESUS I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and...
ZOLA JESUS And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
ZOLA JESUS The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, ...
ZOLA JESUS As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it ...
ZOLA JESUS It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me si...
ZOLA JESUS Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are v...
ZOLA JESUS People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, ...
ZOLA JESUS When you fall in love, you become weak.
ZOLA JESUS

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of ...
EMILE ZOLA

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
EMILE ZOLA

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
EMILE ZOLA

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow up, and gather to itself such ex...
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
EMILE ZOLA

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a c...
EMILE ZOLA

I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
ÉMILE ZOLA

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indi...
EMILE ZOLA

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hi...
ÉMILE ZOLA

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLA

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall ...
EMILE ZOLA

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
ÉMILE ZOLA

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; the...
EMILE ZOLA

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
ÉMILE ZOLA

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I car...
EMILE ZOLA

On suffoquait, les chevelures s'alourdissaient sur les têtes en sueur. Depuis trois heures qu'on é...
ÉMILE ZOLA

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and whi...
EMILE ZOLA

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care ab...
ÉMILE ZOLA

He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certai...
ÉMILE ZOLA

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live o...
EMILE ZOLA

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on th...
EMILE ZOLA

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explo...
EMILE ZOLA

I am here to live out loud
EMILE ZOLA

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if on...
ÉMILE ZOLA

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we...
ÉMILE ZOLA

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...
ÉMILE ZOLA

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thou...
ÉMILE ZOLA

All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness...
ÉMILE ZOLA

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...
ÉMILE ZOLA

'Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety
EMILE ZOLA

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that t...
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
ÉMILE ZOLA

He beheld Lourdes, contaminated by Mammon, turned into a spot of abomination and perdition, transfor...
ÉMILE ZOLA

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLA

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
ÉMILE ZOLA

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it&...
EMILE ZOLA

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
EMILE ZOLA

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles...
EMILE ZOLA

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLA

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know eve...
EMILE ZOLA

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, a...
EMILE ZOLA

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
EMILE ZOLA

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
EMILE ZOLA

In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respecta...
ÉMILE ZOLA

I am here to live out loud.
ÉMILE ZOLA

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

A silence fell at the mention of Gavard. They all looked at each other cautiously. As they were all ...
ÉMILE ZOLA To get a really good game you have to have two (teams) playing, sometimes teams are very compact and...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA I think this is the right thing to do,
GIANFRANCO ZOLA I think Chelsea players play lovely football but sometimes you do not get much joy from watching the...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA It's fair that the sport is stopped ... there are more important things than soccer,
GIANFRANCO ZOLA It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go t...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
ÉMILE ZOLA

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
ÉMILE ZOLA

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because...
ÉMILE ZOLA

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets...
ÉMILE ZOLA

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of th...
ÉMILE ZOLA

The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of...
ÉMILE ZOLA

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. The first few chapters may g...
ÉMILE ZOLA

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

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