David Pye Quotes
The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
Quotes to Explore
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
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Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
