Steven Saylor Quotes
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
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When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.
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I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.
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Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.
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They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
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There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.
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Cowardice is the greatest sin.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
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I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
