Moments Quotes - Page 28

• Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Moving, Sacrifice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Teaching, Historical, Terrible

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Writing, Feelings, Emotion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.

  Walter Kirn

  Running, Flirting, Risk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

  Edan Lepucki

  Single Mom, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Firsts, Snapshots

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Issues, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Thinking, New Orleans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Desire, Machines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

  Chris Abani

  Holocaust, Historical, Ordinary

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

  Chris Abani

  Shadow, Encounters, Ordinary

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

  Gary Cole

  Doors, Shopping, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

  Annie E. Clark

  Struggle, Emotional, Being Real

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Powerful, I Realized

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.

  Brooke Fraser

  Mean, Kids, Water

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'd probably like to get into acting - I've got lots of things that I could do, but at the moment it's just music, music, music.

  Cher Lloyd

  Acting

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• I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment.

  Peter Orner

  Yoga, Nuts, Live In The Moment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

  Adam Young

  Sight, Firsts, Married

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

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• I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Believe, Writing, Fate

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• I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, One Day, Way

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• The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy.

  Big Sean

  Crazy, Advice, Live In The Moment

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

  Big Sean

  Art, Live In The Moment, Talent

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

  Big Sean

  Thinking, Next Day, Live In The Moment

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

  Hayley Williams

  Thinking, Way, Forget

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.

  Schoolboy Q

  Pain, Giving, Needs

  Source: djbooth.net

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