Raymond Carver Quotes
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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I love taking chances.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
