"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."

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Source : "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.

Nelson Algren

#Spring Quotes #Cities Quotes #October Quotes

“A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel like this might be your last job. I enjoy the feeling of, "Maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew," and then working really, really hard and thinking, "Wow, I like that. I did that." Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person who jumps out of planes and enjoys bungee jumping or anything like that, but I definitely enjoy living quite spontaneously and going with the wind.”
“He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.”
“Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.”
“I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.”

Source : "My Brilliant Career: Kristen Wiig" by Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. March 19, 2010.
“Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window”
“I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. Thatâ€™s why I write long form fictionâ€”I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. Iâ€™m a problem-solverâ€”I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.”

Source : "Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour". Interview with Roxanne Naseem Rashedi, lareviewofbooks.org. February 17, 2013.
“I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.”
“For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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