Walter Kirn Quotes

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

Walter Kirn

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Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

John Buford

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Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

LoveLove IsReward

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

Robert Glasper

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David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.

Angela Bowie

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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

Tracy Chapman

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'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

Michaela Coel

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No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Michael Shermer

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Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

Miroslav Vitous

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To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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It seems that we're heading toward the day that films will be released in all platforms simultaneously, albeit with a cost premium to see it at home. But I hope that theater-going doesn't end - I think that watching movies on the big screen with an audience is still the best format and also an important one for society.

Jonathan Mostow

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If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.

Dimebag Darrell

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