Collections Quotes - Page 29

• My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.nationalbook.org

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• You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Atmosphere, Together

  "Interview with Writer and Director Stephen Chbosky “The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Interview with Sarah Knight Adamson, www.sarahsbackstagepass.com. August 27, 2012.

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• None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

  Lewis Black

  People, Needs, Faults

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Motto, Collecting

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• General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

  William Bolitho

  Society, Culture, Littles

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!

  Mo Rocca

  Book, Writing, Past

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• I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Greek, Bed

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• I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

  Riz Ahmed

  Weekend, Winning, Thinking

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• In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

  Bryan Batt

  Art, New Orleans, Dining

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• A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Painting, Series, Corrections

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• To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Lying, Book, Play

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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• For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall.

  Mameve Medwed

  Sports, Pain, Fall

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• I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.

  Jaye Davidson

  Dream, Art, Would Be

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• A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

  Peter Orner

  Rivers, People, Soul

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• Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

  George W. Bush

  Book, Humor, Guy

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• In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, School, Long

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Museums, Illustration

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• The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

  Albert Einstein

  Legends, Honorable, Primitive

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• Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Book, Diaries, Letters

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• The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Mathematics, Relation, Miscellany

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• Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.

  David Letterman

  Weekend, Enron Scandal, People

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• I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Art, Home

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• Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

  Francisco Costa

  Thinking, Design, Clean

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