David L. Ulin Quotes
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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I get my light eyes from my mother.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.
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Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
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I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
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We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
