Padgett Powell Quotes
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
Daniel Boulud
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
Joanne Rowling
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
Garrett Hedlund
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
Action Bronson
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
Vince Lombardi
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
Dakota Fanning
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. Konrath
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
Edgardo Osorio
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Fede Alvarez
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
Zoe Foster Blake
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian Mckellen
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
Victor LaValle
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson
