Evan S. Connell Quotes
He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
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I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
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He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.
