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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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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Dancing is kind of my thing.
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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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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.
