Francine Prose Quotes
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I am healthy and happy.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road.
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Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.
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She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
