William Gaddis Quotes
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
Vanessa Paradis -
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Pamela Stephenson -
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano -
I keep in touch with what's real.
Sam Claflin -
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
Daniel Bruhl -
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine -
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
Jack Bruce Cream -
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen -
Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
Sam Altman -
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
Kate Bush
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Danica McKellar -
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
Harmony Korine -
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb -
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
Tao Lin
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I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.
Andrew O'Hagan -
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
Douglas Jerrold -
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker -
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
L.A. Reid -
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
Muhammad Ali -
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William Gaddis