William Hamilton Maxwell Quotes
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolderThan you used to be.So you used to shake 'em down,But now you stop and think about your dignity.So now sweet sixteen's turned thirty-one,You get to feelin' weary when the work days done.Well all you got to do is get up and into your kicks.If you're in a fix.Come back baby,Rock and roll never forgets.
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I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
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I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
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I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.
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To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
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You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.
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Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.
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I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.
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Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.
