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 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 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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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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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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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.
