Nelson Algren Quotes
New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.
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You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.
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New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
