John Dos Passos Quotes
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
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Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
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Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
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There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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Darling, you can't promise that...but I like to hear you say it.
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For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role. The outlaw quietly takes a seat in the back row of the theater of the mind and watches.
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I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.
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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
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And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.
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I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.
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Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right...
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
