William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.
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I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
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If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
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I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
