Ben Dolnick Quotes
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general could use a more adversarial press corps, especially when it comes to matters of national security.
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The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
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During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
