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 are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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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 know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I think it's nice to have a variety of lineups and formations to use against different opponents, depending on what they bring.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
