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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It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
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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.
