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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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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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.
