Alexi Zentner Quotes
I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
Alexi Zentner
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
Irene Rosenfeld
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
Patricia Highsmith
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
D. H. Lawrence
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Irving Penn
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
Mike Tyson
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I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
Don McLean
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All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
C. V. Wedgwood
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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
Nicholas Sparks
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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
Alexi Zentner
