Rick Moody Quotes
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.
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The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
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If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
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No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
