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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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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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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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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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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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.
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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.
