Stephen Metcalf famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.
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I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.
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Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.
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The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.
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Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.
-- Stephen Metcalf
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You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.
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Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.
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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
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It's not the method, it's the mindset.
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A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
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The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
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We are all more capable than we think we are.
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You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.
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