Richard Serra Quotes
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
