E. L. Doctorow Quotes
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.
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Real Madrid has always been happy with him and we thank him for what he has done here. We wish him all the luck in the future. He asked to leave because this is World Cup year and here he wasn't always going to play. We didn't want to loan him out and only when a big offer arrived did we accept his transfer.
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A lie twice believed is self decieved.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
