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Dawn Powell Quotes

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 28, 1896 - November 14, 1965

Topics

People Satire Out Romanticism Seem

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

Fun Craft Well Improvise Knows He

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Life Song Meaning Whatever Because

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

You Over Starting Starting Over

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

Work Me Think You Career Seriously

Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.

Dog Seems Controversy Just Happens

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Living Leap Turn Things Mothers

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Toots Thielemans

Parents Me Sunday Musician Gestures

I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.

Music Remember Detroit Living Rock

Facts and particulars annoy me.

Clarice Lispector

Donald Trump outsources his ties to China. He outsourced his furniture to Turkey. I know a company in Ohio that could make that furniture in Archibald, Ohio.

Furniture Donald Trump Know Company

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they don't even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

Impossible Friends Doing Sometimes

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

Richard Linklater

Time Me Long Nobody Know Long Time

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