Crescent Dragonwagon Quotes
I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I never lie to my fans.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
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And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.
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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
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I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.
