Subjects Quotes
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.
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I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
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I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.
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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
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When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
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On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
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If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given.
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.
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Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
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Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
