Nicholson Baker Quotes
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.
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My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.
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I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
