David Foster Wallace Quotes
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
David Foster Wallace
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
Queen Latifah
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
Victor Cruz
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
Utada Hikaru
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
Adam Davidson
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
Dan Gertler
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
Nathan Fillion
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Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
Larry Holmes
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On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
James Cronin
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To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch.
Jennifer Konner
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It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
Jeffrey Skoll
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
David Foster Wallace
