Jonathan Franzen Quotes
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.
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Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.
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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
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Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.
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I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
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The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.
