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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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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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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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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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
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I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
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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.
