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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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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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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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
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I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth of gold in it. Now we have paper that is just backed by fiat... Maybe in the new world, something gets backed by consensus.
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I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
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I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.
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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption - or just to kill them.
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
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What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
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The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
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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.
