Padgett Powell Quotes
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
Padgett Powell
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
Larry King
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I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld
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With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."
Quentin Tarantino
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Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.
Azim Premji
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I've never done it, but I think if you do a Google search for 'People who will help me travel across the country to meet my online love,' I'm probably the only person that comes up.
Nev Schulman
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Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
Mark Waid
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
Dita Von Teese
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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
Padgett Powell
