Gary Giddins Quotes
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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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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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
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There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
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If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.
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I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.
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I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.
