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Chris Jordan Quotes

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1963

Topics

History Culture American Way Shame

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Politics Star Candidate Front Movie

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

Best Potential View Done Decide

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Character Only Writer Plot Volume

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.

Book Think You Choose Go Up

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

Ideas Believe Criticism You Group

God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.

God History People Team You Never

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Man Chance Successful Man Successful

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

Government Fight Law Battle Jail

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

Rufus Wainwright

Ambition Lady Gaga Ounce

I come from garbage.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Leonard Bernstein

Communication Words Two Technique

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Time Writing You Phone Done Defend

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