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William Styron Quotes

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1925

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Good Age Writing Someone Product

All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.

Nature Best Intelligence Birds Fly

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Maxwell Caulfield

Hero Think Want Just Kids Wanted

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Simple Job News Decide Only

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Friendship Business Think You Rules

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Steven Spielberg

Imagination Reality Far Away Possible

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

Name Real Him Something Almost Came

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

Jordan Peterson

Politics Identity Sick Game Think

Life has many turns.

Life Many Turns

A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.

Donnie Wahlberg

Responsibility Best Waves You Want

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

Time Guitar Reached Virtuoso Styles

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

Think First Twice Started Alright

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Communication Government Everyone

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