Nicholas Delbanco Quotes
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.
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Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.
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In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
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I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
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I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
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If Moroccans born in Holland commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.
