E. L. Doctorow Quotes

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

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• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

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• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

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• I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

  

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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

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• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

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• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

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• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

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• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

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• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

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• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

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• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

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• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

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• My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!

  

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• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

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• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

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• The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

  

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• I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

  

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• I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

  

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• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Work
  • Period