William Gaddis Quotes
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I think that with this team, we honestly worry about other things besides team concepts.
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When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.
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Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
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I think a lot of women can see themselves in me and a lot of people in general are empowered by seeing someone wear what they want, do what they want, maybe get criticism or get praise, whatever, but still continue to wear and do what they want. I think that a lot of people need that.
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
