D.T. Max Quotes

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

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• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • See

• People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Loved
  • Explanation

• When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Age
  • Parents
  • College

• I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Have
  • Mistrust
  • Conspirator

• I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'

  

  Jason Blum
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Thank God I'm an atheist.

  

  Luis Bunuel
  • God
  • Atheist

• I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

  

  Joe Manchin

• I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • People
  • Great

• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Life
  • May
  • America

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Failure

• A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Thoughts
  • Human
  • Behavior

• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Persons
  • Surveillance

• The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

  

  Václav Hlavatý
  • Faith
  • Left
  • Explanation

• Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Good
  • Music
  • Explanation

• You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Mind
  • Crazy
  • Argue

• Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Society

• Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

  

  George Vaillant
  • Wonder
  • Creativity
  • Explanation

• The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • She
  • Truth
  • Pay

• Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Road
  • Progress
  • Walking

• I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

  

  George Pattison
  • Faith
  • Travel
  • Term

• It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

  

  Nicky Oppenheimer
  • Future
  • Resources
  • Africa

• As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

  

  D.T. Max
  • Explanation
  • Mistrust
  • Narrators