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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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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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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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.
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I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
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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.
