Rick Bragg Quotes
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
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It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
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I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.
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Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the other. They believed in the rational exploration of the universe, and they also believed that there was a hidden spiritual truth. Baroque thinkers were able to live the two at the same time. In any case, for me, it's necessary to live that way also.
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You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
