Jack London Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I would like to direct.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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Reading is important.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
