John D'Agata Quotes
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.
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My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.
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'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.
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Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.
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I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.
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Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.
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I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
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I think it's way too early to speculate on that kind of thing. Bill and Steve have got lot of spunk left, so I think that any speculation on that front is probably a waste of time at this juncture.
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I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.
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It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
