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Richard Powers Quotes

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1957

Topics

Someone Place Anything Where Would

A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.' That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It's kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.

Character People Done Say Kind Way

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Funny People Feel Intention Games

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Michael Crawford

Life Success Failure Beginning Learn

I think we were always humble.

Humble Think Always I Think Were

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

Work Me Writing Skills Understand

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

Pleasure Lead Carrot Market

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Power Men Ambition Succeed Will Who

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

Day Me Writing Saying End Hell

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

People Short Die Stop Boring Become

We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We're in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.

Mohammad bin Salman

Hope Support World Better Trying

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

Good Car Music Sports Rest House

Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

Family School You Go Never See

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