Ben Dolnick Quotes
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
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Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
