James Joyce Quotes
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Quotes to Explore
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.
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Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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Principal Skinner's kitchen catches on fire in the middle of dinner with Superintendant Chalmers
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
