Lawrence Block Quotes
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
Quotes to Explore
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I love New York.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's biological family, good friends, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
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The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
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I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is going on with the president [Donald trump] and the parallels with [Richard] Nixon's presidency, I needed to know more about the man.
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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
