David Foster Wallace Quotes
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
