Nelson Algren Quotes
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
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If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
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I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
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We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.
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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
