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 have no new voices - they've all been used.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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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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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.
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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
