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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As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
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There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
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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.
