Brenda Novak Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
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I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
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You don’t look so good.
