Minnesota Fats Quotes

#1. No one on this Earth knows how old I am.

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#2. As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to take a lesson from Will Smith, who develops projects he can shine in. We're trying to develop things from the ground up.

Columbus Short

#3. I'm known clean around the Earth.

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#4. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

Lee Friedlander

#5. The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.

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#6. Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

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#7. Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

Lewis Mumford

#8. We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#9. And you're going to help me find it."
"Oh, really?" he replied with a wry grin. "Why's that?"
"Because you promised to love me," she said in a dopey voice. "And, uh...honor me...and protect..."
He snickered. "Shut up, spaz.

Gina Damico

#10. I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

Mark Oliver Everett

#11. Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

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