Don DeLillo Quotes
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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“My father had seen in a flash that they were all gunmen, so he told me to stand still, although we were right in a possible line of fire. If near a gun-fight and the weapons are wielded by amateurs, run for your life; if professionals are handling the trigger, stand still — they know where they are shooting.”
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Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
