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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To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!
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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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There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.
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On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
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We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
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I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.
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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.
