E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.
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See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
