Ben Dolnick Quotes
I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'
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I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
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I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.
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They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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Mugger: Your money or your life.
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Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
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I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
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I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.
