Subjects Quotes
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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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I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.
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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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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 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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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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A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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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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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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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
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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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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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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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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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In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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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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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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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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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.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.
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Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
