Nelson Algren Quotes
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.
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If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.
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He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
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Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.
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The truth can't be hidden for long.
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Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.
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It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
