Louise Nurding Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.
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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
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A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.
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There is a very serious energy agenda that we can work on together.
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There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.
