Molly Antopol Quotes
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
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Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
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Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.
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The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
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I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children to teenager to adults to seniors - and how each phase of life presents new situations along the way to discovering our ultimate purpose.
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Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.
