E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. Doctorow
Quotes to Explore
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
Feist
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
Madchen Amick
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
Adam Carolla
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
Halsey
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
Valerie Jarrett
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
Ednita Nazario
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
Malin Akerman
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
Tariq Ramadan
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I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
Marco Brambilla
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
Loretta Lynn
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
Ted Koppel
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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. Doctorow
