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Richard Linklater Quotes

Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.

Richard Linklater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 30, 1960

Topics

Nature Good Me Reality Lesson Bad

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

John Edgar Wideman

Time Day New Day Writing Win Book

I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.

Work Love History Feel America Over

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Jealousy Envy Diseases Incurable

What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my imagination to other places - other galaxies.

Imagination Book Understand Places

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

Work Time Food Me Drive Loved

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

People Learn Mystery You More Write

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

Marriage Woman Death Man Value Need

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

Myself Tired Weird Trying Impress

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

Quality Reading Thought Evolution

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.

I Am You Tell Circles Elite Left

When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

Patience Time Sleep People Short

When you do a meet and greet, every single girl wants something special from you - an extra little hug or something. And that takes something out of you, almost - like, emotionally, you know.

Girl You Hug Know Meet Special

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