John Ashbery Quotes
Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past-it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.
Quotes to Explore
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I was a tomboy.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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If your objective is to keep speeds down, I would suggest we eliminate the ban on radar detectors. Drivers who have them pay attention to their speed. If your objective is to write tickets, then we need to keep the ban on radar detectors.
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
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Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past-it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.
