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Charles Bukowski Quotes

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

Topics

Art Simple Artist Intellectual Way

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Anatoly Rybakov

Book You Professional Say Will Way

Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go!

Megalyn Echikunwoke

Great Me Destination Plan Finding

'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience.

Life You Too Much Play Forget

Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning.

Work Morning Monday Night Easy You

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Integrity Vision Mind World Care

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

Love Success Great Shoes Soul Look

You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

Lloyd Blankfein

Age History Retirement You Look

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Funny Me Performance Something Put

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Nature Space Random World You Look

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good.

Good Think General Very Lives

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

Brittany Howard

Family Time Friends Animals Miss

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

People Think Attention Too Much Mean

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