Erin Way Quotes
Maybe 'Doonby' will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, 'What was that really about?' And that excites me as an artist.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.
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I put it a still life of a pear, made by Manet there on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter', for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.
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I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.
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I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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γέροντα τὸν νοῦν, σάρκα δ᾽ ἡβῶσαν φύει
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Maybe 'Doonby' will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, 'What was that really about?' And that excites me as an artist.
