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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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy the ride and the chase. Because nothing came easy, I really appreciate it when I book roles.
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I will stand up for families against powerful interests, against corporations.
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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.