Max Apple Quotes
The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
Max Apple
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
Lafcadio Hearn
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
Aaron Sorkin
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
Oscar Niemeyer
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
Natalie Cole
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
Jack Wagner
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
Brown Campbell
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Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
Dee Snider
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Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.
Margery Allingham
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There are so many places I have visited which are unusual, but the ones my family and I tend to always go back to are those in Europe, particularly France and Italy.
Penny Lancaster
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The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.
Ahmed Zewail
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The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
Max Apple
