Rick Moody Quotes
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
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I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.
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We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.
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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
