Morgan Saylor Quotes
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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That favorite subject, Myself.
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You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.
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I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
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It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
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I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.
