Nathaniel Rateliff Quotes

There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

Nathaniel Rateliff

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MusicTimeMeWoodsDoingLandscape

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

Jennifer Egan

WorkArtMomentValueFeelMeasure

I'm not the perfect bride after all.

Jenna Bush

BridePerfectAfter

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

John Edgar Wideman

LifeGoodMyselfRootsWritingBook

I'm a huge 'Ghostbusters' fan. I've seen it, like, 10,000 times, so I couldn't be more looking forward to a reboot.

Melissa McCarthy

Looking ForwardLookingForwardMore

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

John McCain

WorkTogetherWarChallengesThink

What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

Maura Tierney

LifeFocusMePerformanceNiceMore

In terms of preparation, if there's some historical context that's needed, I do like to read a lot. Working on Joe Kennedy for 'Boardwalk,' I read a couple of biographies on him. It's nice to have a broader context of the man outside of where the show is coming from.

Matt Letscher

ManPreparationNiceOutsideHim

A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.

Jeff Buckley

LoveSongLearnYouNothingLine

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Michael A. Stackpole

WorkOwnWhichPublishersAuthors

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike

HopeArtDeepProfessionalismBoring

I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.

Mary-Kate Olsen

GoalsDayMindMeThinkName

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

Mike Quade

BetterPlayGoingHarder

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