O. Winston Link Quotes
I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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I think there's a connection with what you wear. If you don't feel good about what you're wearing, you aren't going to feel confident, and you aren't going to be able to concentrate.
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So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.
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Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
