Neil Cross Quotes
The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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Fashion is one big family.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
