Joe Meno Quotes
I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
