Donald Barthelme Quotes
-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
Quotes to Explore
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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I am not that smart.
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I love black and yellow. Black and yellow is Batman; black and yellow is Spongebob!
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That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I try not to go around looking like a hag.
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-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
