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Ernest Gaines Quotes

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 15, 1933

Topics

Culture Men Hands Seeing Why More

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.

Work Spiritual Transformation Think

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Power Time Politics Thought Name

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Life Nature Sad Me Sadness Think

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.

Work Myself Job Story Help Within

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

Measure Identify Some Characters

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert Altman did.

Good People Group Out Been Would

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

Live Food Pizza Fast Fast Food Eat

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

Decision Constitution Generation Our

I don't read Twitter.

A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.

Character Time Beginning People End

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

Douglas Tompkins

Cell Phone Logic Phone Now System

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

Heart People Mind Strong You Body

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