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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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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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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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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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
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I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.
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A lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.
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A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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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.
