Walter Kaufmann Quotes
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I don't even have my own computer.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
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When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
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Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
