Erskine Caldwell Quotes
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I'm always focused.
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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They were devils incarnate.
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In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.
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I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
