Richard LaGravenese Quotes

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

Richard LaGravenese

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I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

Jens Lekman

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I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.

Matt Dillon

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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

John Stuart Mill

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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

Lorna Luft

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The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

Joy Behar

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Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.

Jonathan Evison

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My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.

Diana Quick

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I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

Diane Nelson

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As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

Derek Walcott

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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Delmore Schwartz

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I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.

Colson Whitehead

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The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

Ansel Elgort

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