Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.
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I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
