Andre Aciman Quotes
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.
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George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.
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I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
