Franz Wright Quotes

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

  

  Rand Paul
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• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

  

  Pat Quinn
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• The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
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• I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
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• The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

  

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• I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
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• Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

  

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• I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

  

  Franz Wright
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