Richard Powers Quotes

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Richard Powers

• Racism
• Senses
• Belonging

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Mind

• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Pilot

• I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • See
  • Shirts
  • I See

• I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Sleep

• Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • Lonely

• I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Beautiful
  • Religious
  • Architecture

• I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Writing
  • Partner

• I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Character
  • Book
  • Funny

• If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Mother
  • Kitchen

• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

  

  David Hare
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.

  

  Chris Evans
  • People
  • Funny
  • Effort

• Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Sweet

• I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Up
  • Community
  • City

• Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Book
  • Stop
  • Reading

• Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Different

• I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

  

  bell hooks
  • Justice
  • Criticism
  • Racism

• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • World
  • Culture
  • Violence

• We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Racism
  • Senses
  • Belonging