Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.
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We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
Sylvester: What about figuration in a more literal sense?
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
