E. L. Doctorow Quotes
My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
