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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I like bringing smiles to people's faces.
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I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
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From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
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Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
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No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
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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.
