William Gaddis Quotes
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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But I think we need the international market.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.
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What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
