Andre Dubus III Quotes
I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.
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Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices.
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I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
