Nelson Algren Quotes
...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
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The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.
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I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
