E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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At the end of the summer the sea always seems to be railing against the thought of another long, fierce New England winter.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
