Patrick Nielsen Hayden Quotes
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
V. S. Naipaul -
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
Gautam Adani -
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant -
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
Kajol -
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
Wanda Jackson -
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Rachel Brosnahan -
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
Ralph Lauren -
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
Mako -
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
Eddie Marsan -
I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
Walter O'Brien -
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
Barry Ritholtz -
I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
Dana Perino
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The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
John Selden -
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
Zachary Taylor -
Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
Ben Bernanke -
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden