Nelson Algren Quotes
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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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 love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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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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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
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Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
