Padgett Powell Quotes
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
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I am searching pure expression of that incomprehensible power, which works universally.
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I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
