Richard Russo Quotes
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
Quotes to Explore
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.
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do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.
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Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
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I don't really get starstruck much.
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You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
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My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.
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My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.
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You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
