Gary Lutz Quotes
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.
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There is also some confusion about how this project differs from the old, proposed conference center (that failed by referendum six years ago). And most people want to know where it would be located, and how it would be paid for.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
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Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
