Geoff Rickly Quotes
I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.
Geoff Rickly
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
Adam McKay
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
Nate Powell
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
Sam Shepard
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Patrick Modiano
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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
John Lahr
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Ian_Jack
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius
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Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
Blaise Pascal
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Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Mike Schmidt
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
