Reynolds Price Quotes
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.
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The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
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The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.
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Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.
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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
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There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
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I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
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By this means all knowledge degenerates into probability; and this probability is greater or less, according to our experience of the veracity or deceitfulness of our understanding, and according to the simplicity or intricacy of the question.
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Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
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'It sounds like I'm always being facetious. That's why I never get voice over work. 'You sound like you hate the product.' '
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
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When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.
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I came from a town of about 2,000 people with one stop light, and I was told that nothing I ever wanted to do, I would succeed in.
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I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain.
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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
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The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
