Top 74 Fred D'aguiar Quotes
#1. If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?
Fred D'Aguiar
#2. To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.
Fred D'Aguiar
#3. Hey, Major! What do you say we fix their flawed reasoning?" Miya roared through her helmet. It sounded like some creature from the pits of hell.
Fred D. Shutts
#4. If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.
Fred D'Aguiar
#5. When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.
Fred D'Aguiar
#6. I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.
Fred Schneider
#7. I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I'd have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.
Fred Astaire
#8. We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
Fred Frith
#9. To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry.' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.'
Fred Rogers
#11. I don't think you lose anything by hallucinating. It's cheaper than airfare, the destinations more interesting, and I'd rather have a mutant squid on my window than the State Department trying to do foreign affairs.
Fred Reed
#12. I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.
Fred Melamed
#13. I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.
Fred D'Aguiar
#14. Good thing we weren't here when this happened," Fred added. "We'd be pancakes - DEAD ones!
Jo Ann Yhard
#15. People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
Fred D'Aguiar
#16. People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.
Fred D'Aguiar
#17. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.
Fred D'Aguiar
#18. I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.
Fred Gwynne
#19. People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.
Fred D'Aguiar
#20. I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.
Fred Durst
#21. I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.
Fred D'Aguiar
#22. Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
Fred Frith
#23. If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.
Fred Astaire
#25. I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
Fred D'Aguiar
#26. I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.
Fred D'Aguiar
#27. I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.
Fred Savage
#28. My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
Fred D'Aguiar
#29. I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.
David Wenham
#30. Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.
Fred D'Aguiar
#31. If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.
Fred D'Aguiar
#32. I used to look at my dog and think "if you were a little smarter you could tell what you were thinking," and he'd look at me like he was saying "if you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.
Fred Jungelaus
#33. Okay, that one's pretty good," Fred acknowledged, after she'd told him a particularly filthy joke. "But have you heard the one about the baker's wife?"
"No," Kyra said.
"Rumor has it, she married him for his buns." Fred burst out laughing.
Kyra groaned. "Okay, that was just bad.
Bridget Zinn
#34. Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up.
Fred DeLuca
#35. I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.
Fred Ward
#36. Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.
Fred D'Aguiar
#37. So ... you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up mate, or all the good ones will be gone," said Fred.
J.K. Rowling
#38. To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.
Fred D'Aguiar
#39. The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four
Fred Allen
#40. Fred nodded and said, "So what you're saying is, if we all die, that's not even the worst-case scenario."
John replied, "I'd still like to shoot a little higher than that, Freddy.
David Wong
#41. Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.
Stephen Richards
#42. Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.
Fred Rogers
#44. I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Fred Allen
#45. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Michael Dell had declared he had so little faith in an Apple recovery that if he were Jobs, he'd "shut Apple down and give the money back to the shareholders.
Fred Vogelstein
#46. In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#48. Some days, being J.D. Salinger seems like a good idea.
Fred Smith
#49. With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.
Fred D'Aguiar
#50. I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
Fred Thompson
#51. My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
Fred Couples
#52. If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.
Fred L. Turner
#53. I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
Fred D'Aguiar
#55. Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.
Fred D'Aguiar
#56. The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.
Fred D'Aguiar
#57. I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.
Stephen Moyer
#58. Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.
Fred D'Aguiar
#59. If I was into girls, I'd do you," I tell him honestly. He leans forward conspiratorially. "Psst, I'll let you in on a secret Fred," he glances sheepishly from side to side. "I actually have a cock. Don't tell anyone, it would ruin my reputation. But feel free to do me any time you want.
L. H. Cosway
#60. There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.
Fred Ward
#61. I'd never kissed a girl before. Ever. And I never thought the first girl I kissed would be drunk, vomiting, and crying over her ex-boyfriend. Not to mention, she went to school with my little sister.
Beth Fred
#62. But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
Fred Thompson
#63. If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen
#64. Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.
Fred D'Aguiar
#65. Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.
Fred D'Aguiar
#66. I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C.
Fred Armisen
#67. As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.
Fred Savage
#68. I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
Fred Savage
#69. When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh ... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.
Fred Armisen
#70. No one knows how to do officering, Fred. That's why they're officers. If they knew anything, they'd be sergeants.
Terry Pratchett
#71. There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.
Fred D'Aguiar
#72. A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain.
Fred D'Aguiar
#73. Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.
Fred Barnes
#74. I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.
Fred D'Aguiar
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