Donald Barthelme Quotes
As a magician works with the unique compressibility of doves, finding some, losing others in the same silk foulard, so the rebels fold scratchy, relaxed meanings into their smallest actions.
Donald Barthelme
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove
If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
Pat Nixon
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Frances Conroy
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman Rushdie
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
Candice Swanepoel
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
W. H. Davies
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
Raghuram Rajan
I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith Piaf
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
Gavin MacLeod
Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
Nicholas Sparks
God can use the jawbone of an ass!
Winkie Pratney
When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.
Jenova Chen
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
Vladimir Nabokov
As a magician works with the unique compressibility of doves, finding some, losing others in the same silk foulard, so the rebels fold scratchy, relaxed meanings into their smallest actions.
Donald Barthelme
