E. L. Doctorow Quotes
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
Quotes to Explore
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
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Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
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When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
