Andre Aciman Quotes
As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.
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I'm not at all overextended... I'm very, very hands-on.
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Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.
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I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
