E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,’ in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
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'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
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When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
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I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
