Denis Johnson Quotes
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
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I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
