Edith Pearlman Quotes
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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I like the six wins, and I don't like the six losses. The good news is, we didn't really stub our toe against the teams we should beat, but the bad news is that we didn't knock off any of the quality opponents.
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Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
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I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
