Richard Russo Quotes
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
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If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.
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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.
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I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
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I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.
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I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.
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If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
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It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
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Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.
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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
