Gerald Vizenor famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
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I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.
-- Gerald Vizenor
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.
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Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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