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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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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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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When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
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I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
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Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.
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Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
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We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.
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I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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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.
