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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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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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 worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.
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The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
Elliott Erwitt -
My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.
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I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.
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I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
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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.
