Emily Susan Rapp Quotes
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.
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Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
