Richard Price Quotes
15 quotes
in 296 categories
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The subject comes first, the medium second.
Art
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A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
Art
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I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
Changed
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You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
Burnt
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In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had…
All
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I have no fear of changing looks.
Changing
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I love deliberately badly written books.
Badly
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Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.
Better
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I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their…
Art
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The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
Belt
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I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and…
Accurately
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I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is…
Amateur
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I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get…
All
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I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
All
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I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on…
Angel
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I write because I can't imagine not writing.
Imagine
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I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint.…
Anyone
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I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as…
Chance
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If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out…
Beginning
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If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it.…
Acknowledged
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