Don DeLillo Quotes
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Quotes to Explore
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.
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Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.
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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
