Andre Dubus III Quotes
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I am tone deaf.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
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I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.
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There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
