Thinking Quotes - Page 30

• Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Believe, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.

  Ben Lerner

  People, Fiction, Able

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I can't think of many other laws we might need. For now, though, we'll be talking to German Muslims over issues of coexistence.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Talking, Law, Issues

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

  Pharoahe Monch

  Want, Radio, Feels

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Names, America, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fighting, People, Seductive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Son, Entrepreneur, Desire

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Wish, Different, Needs

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Writing, Pages

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• It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

  David Brooks

  Law, Office, Reform

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". "News Hour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

  Mark Shields

  Special, Majority, Interest

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.

  David Grubbs

  Song, Art, Two

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

  Frank Langella

  Climbing, People, Cynical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ultimately the social change has to come from the people who make the movies, so the people who make the movies have to look at the landscape and say to themselves, "Well, you know, these things are changing, and I'm okay with their having changed, and I think it's okay to start reflecting those changes through the movies we make."

  Wesley Morris

  People, Looks, Landscape

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture. They're not out taking the temperature of things and using the results of whatever sort of cultural surveying they're doing to make movies. They're interested in doing things that people are already comfortable with, and taking those properties and filling them.

  Wesley Morris

  Caring, People, Culture

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

  Bill Bradley

  Names, Political, Calling

  "Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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• I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Children, Parent, Identity

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

  David Brooks

  Floating, Campaigns, Campaign Finance

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.

  Mark Shields

  Ideas, Four, Limits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will never happen. We have to channel it in ways where we can see it and hold it accountable. And I think the parties are the best vehicle for that.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Way, Get Money

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I don't believe in curses, I think you make your own destination.

  Manny Ramirez

  Believe, Destination, Curse

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• The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

  Bob Dylan

  Lying, Persons, Presses

  Interview with Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 5, 2004.

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• It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Opposites, Position, Knows

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• There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

  James Franco

  People, Phenomenon

  "Danny McBride, James Franco Interview, Your Highness". Movies Online Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 28, 2018.

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