Keith Gessen Quotes
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.
Quotes to Explore
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.
