John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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I'm very pessimistic.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
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There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
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I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.
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There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
