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Martin Puryear Quotes

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sculptor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 23, 1941

Topics

Work Knowing Things Inner How

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Time Simple Long Simple Things Takes

I would love to do a small indie comedy, like a Wes Anderson movie or, like, an ensemble comedy like 'The Royal Tenenbaums' or 'Little Miss Sunshine.' I like comedies like that, that have a lot of heart and are about family dynamics.

Family Love Heart Sunshine Small

White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

People Color Doing Trying Choose

I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?

John Edgar Wideman

Purpose Pain Joy Me Writing Doing

Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.

Facts Information Committee Senior

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

Jeffrey Donovan

Business Job People Writing Think

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

Culture Perspective Woman Moon Dark

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Chance Stand Television Censorship

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

Life More She Real Smiles Pleasure

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

Sophie Thompson

Natural Books Again Read Reader

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

Trust Government People Bond Become

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

Good Best Me Moving Measure Economy

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