John D'Agata Quotes
The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I love books.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
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I would go and see loads of films all in one go and they'd start to merge together. It was a bit sad, really. I'd have to see it again.
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With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?
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Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
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I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
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The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.
