Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Jeffrey Tate

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I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

John Edgar Wideman

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In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

Steve Carell

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It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Steve Forbert

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The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.

Steven Bochco

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I couldn't ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.

Roberto Clemente

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I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

Masahiro Tanaka

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You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Mike DeWine

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Our Trolls are like gummy bears that have been flocked in velvet, and it's a world made of fiber art... carpeted floors, houses made of hair - even fire is made of hair.

Mike Mitchell

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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Lou Holtz

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

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