George Saunders Quotes
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
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I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
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In order for us to stay in the game, we had to figure out how to slow them down. The first thought was defensive transition. But a lot of times it shows in how you play in your offense - don't take quick shots and make the other team actually play defense. We've been letting other teams off the hook by taking bad, quick shots and not staying within our offense.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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But I think that every time you hurt somebody you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.
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Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
