Saul Bellow Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.
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My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
