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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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try to dictate to banks what they can do or not do, but to require them to strengthen their capital to absorb potential losses and hold less risky assets.
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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
