"Did I throw the most important thing perhaps,……" — Renata Adler
"Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?"
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32 Quotes by Renata Adler
Renata Adler has 32 quotes on this site.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your…
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus…
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
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Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you…
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The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over.…
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I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
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