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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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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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.