Padgett Powell Quotes
I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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My father was a lawyer.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
