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 if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.
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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
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It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.
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I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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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.
