Jonathan Lethem Quotes
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
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If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
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The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.
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In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?
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What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.
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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
