Francis Spufford Quotes
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.'
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Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.
