Nelson Algren Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
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I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack at a time, he's Tracheotomy Man!
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
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I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.
