Frank Norris Quotes
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
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I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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You know, there’s one thing about you that always astonishes me. The longer you talk, the wronger you get.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
