Alan Colmes Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
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These were my people; cells in my best image; my negation and deletion. In seeing them, I named them, and they began to spurt. She leaned with her whole life to kiss me. I was awake again and so was Darrel, the most awake we’d ever been. I walked through the kitchen over the piles of sleeping or prone pleased bodies to pretend I could see out through the mirror over the window to the flat backyard.
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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
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When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.
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When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.
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Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.
