Able Quotes - Page 32

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

Fred Allen

Promise, Frozen, Someday

Fred Allen (2009). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.

John Dos Passos

Book, Writing, Reality

John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

Blaise Pascal

Men, Errors, Grace

c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.83 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

Stephen Leacock

Jail, Childhood, Village

Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.51, The Floating Press

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The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

Ernest Hemingway

Art, Men, Use

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Ray Bradbury

Writing, Thinking, Looks

"Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

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You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

Carlton Cuse

Character

Source: collider.com

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Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.

Sloane Crosley

Crazy, Character, Writing

"Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would give to be able to stop the illicit trade of Africa's wildlife, and to just look into the president of China's eyes and say, "You don't want this anymore, your country doesn't want this anymore," and have it be done. That would be great.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Country, Eye, Ivory

Source: www.avclub.com

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Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.

Girl Talk

Girl, Song, Nice

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being able to manipulate that is a really easy way to connect with people.

Girl Talk

Song, Hate, Emotional

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!

Dan Povenmire

Kids, Thinking, Drawing

Source: www.slate.com

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I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.

Michael Madsen

Block, Reading, People

Source: www.avclub.com

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Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Jasper Johns

Art, Reality, Childhood

"New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

Jasper Johns

Strong, Ambition, Thinking

"New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

David Gelernter

Teacher, Writing, Yale

Source: bigthink.com

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You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

David Ayer

Nice, Thinking, People

Source: collider.com

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I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Play, Environment

"Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer Talk FRANKLIN & BASH, the Guest Stars in Season 2, and Hopes for a Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

David Fincher

Single Mom, Tired, Quality

Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.

John Carlos Frey

Thinking, Trying, Homelessness

Source: www.pbs.org

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When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Jobs, Character, Creating

Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Strong, Jobs, Thinking

Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

Dolph Lundgren

People, Body, Life Is

Source: www.movieweb.com

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Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.

Keri Russell

Imagination, Use, Kind

Source: www.movieweb.com

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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

Al Yankovic

Fashion, Song, Clever

Source: www.avclub.com

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