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.
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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.
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I am not honest.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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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.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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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.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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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.
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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.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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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!
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To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
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Even after arriving in South Korea, it's dangerous. As a North Korean defector, I need to be careful from the spies to protect my relatives inside North Korea.
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When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
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M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
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As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
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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.
