Don DeLillo Quotes
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Quotes to Explore
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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I'm very religious.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
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Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
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And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
