Andreï Makine Quotes
The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Cancer is always funny.
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Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.
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If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.
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Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
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She Hillary Clinton is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.
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I can't play a slave.
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The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
