Will Oldham Quotes

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Will Oldham

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SometimesNeedTellThingsGoing

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

John Ralston Saul

GreatPeopleMindWritingBelieve

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

Solange Knowles

LifeYouArtistKnowMoreNormal

As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?

Tom Graves

FaceRichAmericanDoorsHouseStop

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.

Michael Tubbs

FatherMotherSchoolHigh School

I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.

Joshua Henry

CharacterChallengeAppreciateYou

My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.

Jared Polis

GoodTimeExperienceEffortKnowing

We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

EducationChangeTimeTrainingYou

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

Donald Hall

PoetryMeControlKindSoundLine

I love being outdoors and being with animals, and when you're on a horse, you have to leave your anxieties and worries behind in the barn. It's very therapeutic.

Deborah Harkness

LoveOutdoorsHorseYouAnimals

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Colin Powell

TimePastFinancialFindTrouble

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

Claire Messud

AdventureParentsWritingSomeone

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

Brian Helgeland

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