John D'Agata Quotes
In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
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Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
