Nelson Algren Quotes
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.
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I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.
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The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
