Padgett Powell Quotes
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Values are more important than money.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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There are a lot of jobs in the financial industry that do need a math major.
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That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
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Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.
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The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
