Nelson Algren Quotes
The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.
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The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
