T. S. Eliot Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
