Dana Spiotta Quotes

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

Dana Spiotta

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I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

Jim Carroll

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I've always thought Ed Burns was a profoundly underrated actor. He's a great director, obviously. A great director/writer. But I think he's a stunning actor, too.

John C. McGinley

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An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Tom Hopkins

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'Bigg Boss' is one show that I can never be a part of. I am very restless as a person, so keeping me locked won't be a good idea.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

Michael McCaul

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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

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When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

David Walton

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The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

Brian Fallon

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Sometimes people can be wary of standing up... but I don't have a problem doing that.

Ashleigh Murray

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The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

Peter Senge

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I have nothing against the film industry, but my mom asked me to do anything but act.

Shenaz Treasury

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The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

Noam Chomsky

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