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.Franz Wright
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
Ralph Bakshi -
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 -
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones -
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs -
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
Rand Paul -
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
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. -
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 -
The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
Rafael Nadal -
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Jackie Gleason -
I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
Dana Perino
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Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.
Iain Sinclair -
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
Valerie Plame -
If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.
George Allen, Sr. -
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.
Socrates -
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
Panayiotis Zavos -
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