Richard Schickel Quotes

#1. I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

Alex Pettyfer

#2. Luck always favors the comely.

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#3. Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

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#4. If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#5. No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.

B. J. Gallagher Hateley

#6. Love gives one a kind of goodness.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#7. The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

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#8. Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ?

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#9. Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.

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#10. He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

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#11. Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

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#12. He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

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#13. Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Harold Bloom

#14. This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

Sanober Khan

#15. This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

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#16. I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

#17. That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

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#18. A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

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#19. A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Ann Zwinger

#20. The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

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#21. I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

Robert Walser

#22. A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

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#23. There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

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