John Metcalf (John Metcalf) Quotes
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
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In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
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Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
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Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is.
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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
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I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.
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The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
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The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
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Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
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I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.
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I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
