Saul Bellow Quotes
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
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You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
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Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.
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I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
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We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
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I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
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When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
