Marguerite Duras Quotes
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I know what poverty is.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
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Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
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I'm a Red American; I believe in tax cuts. But I'm a Red American with a lot of Blue stripes.
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The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
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The author Goya is convinced that it is as proper for painting to criticize human error and vice as for poetry and prose to do so, although criticism is usually taken to be exclusively the business of literature.
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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
