Harry Crews Quotes

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
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• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
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• Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
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• For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• What could be better than working with people you love?

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

  

  Hans Hofmann
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• I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'

  

  Doug Aitken
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• I think, at the end of the day, you should just be judged by your work, not on what effect it might have on the world or your community.

  

  Ken Jeong
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• I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

  

  Alan Jackson
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• I just wanted to go to New York and be on Broadway, but then I was accepted by Juilliard, where they trained me in classical voice. It was great in the end, but at the time, I thought, 'What am I doing here? This is not my path.' But it was absolutely my path and where I was meant to be.

  

  Audra McDonald
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• I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

  

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