Nelson Algren Quotes
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
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I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
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A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.
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Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.
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I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.
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I want to be that counted-on guy to score goals.
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One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
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Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
