John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.
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One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."
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It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.
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Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.
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I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
