Saul Bellow Quotes
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Quotes to Explore
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
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Look, I think if you've got a niche portfolio or just operating in one country, like the United States, your ability to absorb the volatility is much less.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
