Christian Rudder Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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You have good days and bad days.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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I'm bisexual.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
