Padgett Powell Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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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?
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I can do whatever I want.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Donald Trump said he doesn't care about Paul Ryan's support, he doesn't want Paul Ryan's support, that he might be better off without Paul Ryan's support.
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The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.
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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
