Adam Gopnik Quotes
We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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I think I am normal. I am normal for me.
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Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
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I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
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We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.
