William H. Gass Quotes
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.
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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
