Nelson Algren Quotes
I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.Nelson Algren
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I am not honest.
Larry David -
I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
Faith Hill -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
Zachary Levi -
Actor's life is very long.
Jackie Chan -
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
Gary Sinise -
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
Samantha Shannon
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
Gail Sheehy -
In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
Hal Rogers -
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
Imran Khan -
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies -
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
Larry Williams -
Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
Barry Jenkins
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
Yao Ming -
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
B. B. King -
We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love.
Donna Brazile -
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
Nancy Horan -
Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
Warren Farrell -
I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
Nelson Algren