Alice Munro Quotes
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestions for the show itself, which is amazing because it makes you realize the show's really struck a chord and found its audience.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.
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Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
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I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
