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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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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.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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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.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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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.
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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.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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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.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.
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I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.
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I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
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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.
