Padgett Powell Quotes
I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
