Paul Di Filippo Quotes

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Paul Di Filippo

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1954

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I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

Joe McNally

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I can barely use my iPhone. I can't do Facebook, can't do Twitter, can't do Instagram, none of it.

Joe Gilgun

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I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,' which contains 100 stories, each of them about a page long. They're somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa. I find it helpful to read one before sitting down to write.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.

Mia Goth

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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Tori Amos

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I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and renew yourself.

Tony Harrison

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Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservations surrounded by the society that destroyed their civilization, and are still stigmatized. For decades and decades, for hundreds of years except in Indian schools, they weren't allowed to speak their language. That stigma takes a terrible toll.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

Brie Larson

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I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

Asdrubal Cabrera

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We've been fortunate. 'Push It' will never die.

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I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can either boost your career, and everybody can't wait until your third album, or the second one is terrible, and 'He probably hit a plateau on his first one.'

Thomas Rhett

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I want to make films that people will say, 'That movie rocked!'

Toby Emmerich

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