Rick Bass Quotes

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Rick Bass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 7, 1958

Topics

DayPeopleStoryThinkYouLiving

We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.

Jerome Powell

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I drink a lot of juice and eat a lot of vegetables.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I can tell how honest a joke is or how true a joke is by how fast the laughs come.

Michael Che

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The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Dolores Huerta

PeopleBuildingColorAmericaTeach

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

Doug Henning

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People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

Dean Bakopoulos

HomeDayPeopleBookYouSometimes

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Chris Adrian

LifeTimeTogetherCollegeAmbition

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Constantin Stanislavski

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I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.

Claire Denis

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Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Boyle Roche

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I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

Anthony Bourdain

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