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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White
Politics
Law
Thrive
Before
Revolution
France
Must
Abstract
Individuals
Idea
Since
Equal
French
Identity
Opposed
Left
America
Arts
Us
Right
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
Ednita Nazario
Love
Family
You
Values
Society
Thread
Unconditional
Unconditional Love
Idea
Come
Family Values
Common
Children
Anything
Your
Specifically
I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Casualties
Idea
Bloodshed
Stand
It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
Edward Albee
Good
Hell
Both
Idea
Friends
Heaven
Good Idea
I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.
Edward Enninful
Fashion
Character
Me
You
Game
Picture
Clothes
Characters
Kind
Some
Throw
Almost
Idea
Like
She
Still
Go
Dolls
Child
Just
Where
Them
Create
Your
Who
Playing
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.
Edward Hirsch
Alone
Needs
You
Experience
Poet
Circuit
Kind
Poem
Poems
Poetry
Takes
Idea
Between
Read
Reader
How
Exist
Place
Meaning
Based
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
Edward Hirsch
Myself
Me
Writing
Made
Poet
Practice
Reading
Related
Apprenticeship
Kind
Stayed
Poem
Poetry
Through
Put
Idea
Understood
Artist
Just
Wanted
Decided
Then
Even
Deeply
Thing
'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom.
Edward Kitsis
Love
Mom
Lost
Favorite
Idea
Boy
Were
Wanted
Peter
Peter Pan
Orphans
Pan
When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
Edward Norton
Work
Time
You
Creative
First
Everyone
Way
Pushes
Pushing
Idea
Another
Comfortable
First Time
Person
Get
Anybody
Want
Working
Hard
Thing
I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.
Edward P. Jones
Family
Me
You
Nothing
Else
Out
Something
Something Else
Never
Takes
Idea
Longer
Make
Comfortable
Because
Doing
Been
Up
Friends
Than
Family And Friends
Stories
Which
Them
Using
Why
Harder
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
Edward P. Jones
You
Library
Shopping
Walk
Topic
Out
Pick
Idea
Along
Go
Bus
Sudden
Riding
They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from, and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we, as the public, trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives?
Edward Snowden
Trust
Walk
Our
Our Lives
Record
No Idea
Case
Records
Idea
Permanent
How
Still
Coming
Private
Going
Where
Information
Public
Public Trust
Lives
Things
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
Edward Tufte
Work
Time
Knowledge
Long
Long Time
Guided
Idea
Forever
Trying
Create
Now
Things
Last
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de Bono
Creative
Creativity
Thinking
Nurtured
Mystical
Idea
Talent
Terms
Skill
Every new idea in any field needs protection.
Edwin Catmull
Needs
Protection
Field
Every
Idea
New
New Idea
Any
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.
Edwin Lutyens
Relationship
Garden
Path
Every
Flower
Backbone
Scheme
Idea
Beautifully
Wall
Stone
Central
Should
Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.
Ehud Barak
Try
Own
Aggressive
Think
Intervene
Others
Borders
Russians
Physically
Takes
Idea
Steps
Like
Accept
Within
His
Sovereign
Order
Chinese
Should
Your
Whoever
Keep
Why
Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
Eileen Myles
Art
Me
Writing
Complicated
Too Much
Thought
Too
Later
Pleasure
Would
Would-Be
Somehow
Idea
Perhaps
Liked
Lot
Reviews
America
Just
Decided
Realized
Much
Whole
For me, the idea of releasing a free record is powerful if everybody gets it for free at the same time.
El-P
Time
Me
Free
Everybody
Releasing
Record
Idea
Powerful
Same
Gets
Same Time
I really only put stuff out when I have something to say and I feel like I've got a direction and I've got an idea - and that can even take two, two-and-a-half years to flesh out.
El-P
Say
Out
Something
Direction
Only
Take
Put
Idea
Feel
Stuff
Like
Got
Years
Really
Flesh
Even
Two
When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.
El-P
You
Yourself
People
Song
Writing
Hide
Too Much
Whatever
Every
Too
Kinda
Record
About
Something
Songs
Part
Idea
Make
Lot
Behind
Want
Little
Might
Themselves
Then
Much
Exposed
Now
Now And Then
My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
Elaine Stritch
Life
Wonderful
Word
Everybody
Idea
Get
Trying
Serenity
Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding!
Elana Meyers
Alone
First
Own
Difficult
Cold
Definite
Dress
No Idea
Had
Idea
How
Doing
Up
Shock
Southern
Handle
Being
Warm
Coat
Standpoint
Even
Compete
Started
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
Eleanor Catton
Women
Experience
Luck
Other
About
Struck
Tend
Writers
Idea
Identity
How
Coming
Lot
Questions
Women Writers
Where
Them
Lucky
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
Eli Roth
Hero
Evil
Group
Suicide
Point
Point Of View
He
Idea
Always
Been
Antichrist
View
Your
Fascinated
Bomber
Thing
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
Elia Kazan
You
No Idea
Idea
How
Self-Worth
Actor
Fragile
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