E. L. Doctorow Quotes
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.
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Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.
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It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
