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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. ”
I love vinyl, man. ”
I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something. ”
I love what I do, so I don't mind working. ”
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love. ”
You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore. ”
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down. ”
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose. ”
If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love? ”
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. ”