- Limitations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had, like, a keytar. I was always attracted to the guitar, but I never really thought that I could be good at it because I was trained on piano, so it was kind of a jump.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something that I don't normally tell, and it's not necessarily because I wanna keep it from anybody - I just don't think about it - but one thing about me that not a whole lot of people know and that never really gets brought up is that I actually don't have a driver's license. I've never taken a driver's test.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never any ebb in human misery.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.
- Anomaly
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020