Nelson Algren Quotes
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Quotes to Explore
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I just write mechanical things.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
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You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
