E. L. Doctorow Quotes
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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I am very, very sorry for the lives lost in Iraq. I think it was a very noble job that your army and your people did in Iraq.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
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The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
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There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
