E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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We've patented the idea... of using the address book as a place to declare that you like a brand. By so doing, the brand has now got your permission to send you personal messages - it could be money off offers, coupons, promotions, just information, whatever is appropriate.
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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I was keen on the idea of being famous. From as long as I can remember, I danced around the kitchen. I would dance around and sing and pretend that one day, somebody would break down from the big places and maybe wander over to our house to see if they could borrow our phone. They'd look in the window and see me prancing around and say, 'We found a star!' Beyond that, which is totally a kid dreaming, I was never under any belief that what we were doing was leading toward something. There was never any sort of formula.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
