Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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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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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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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.
