“The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 175 of 303
“A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.”
“'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.”
“I try to avoid giving advice.”
“Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.”
“Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.”
“I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.”
“Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.”
“My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.”
“Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.”
“When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.”
“I am a moralist. I worry.”
“In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.”
“Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.”
“You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.”
“We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!”
“What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?”
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
“Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.”
“There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.”