William Targ Quotes
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.
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Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten
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The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism.
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
