Richard Powers Quotes
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.
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Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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Listen to me brother! bring the
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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When I played out it was just me and the guitar but now it’s just messing with the full band for the longest time, kind of putting the show together and trying to make a live show that is worth people coming to and spending their money on.
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The teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.
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Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
