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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.


Armand Assante

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ARMAND ASSANTE I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
ARMAND ASSANTE Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
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ARMAND ASSANTE It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really ha...
ARMAND ASSANTE It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written,
ARMAND ASSANTE You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
ARMAND ASSANTE I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
ARMAND ASSANTE My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespeare...
ARMAND ASSANTE I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
CLEA DUVALL To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
GEORGE STEINER “A boy’s face, cheeks, lips, eyes, yes, and reddish-golden hair in provision. Good Lord, it was ...
ANNE RICE “If I’m an angel, paint me with black wings.”
ANNE RICE “And all the lives I’d lived, and the worlds I’d known, seemed even less substantial.”
ANNE RICE I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the sto...
KATHY REICHS I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
DAVID EDDINGS My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it d...
PATRICK DEWITT I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a...
ANNIE JACOBSEN I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I...
RANDI WEINGARTEN There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing a...
COREY TAYLOR I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
KENT MCCORD I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye ...
NINA DOBREV I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
WHITLEY STRIEBER I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
ROBERT MACNEIL People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I...
BOY GEORGE I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something l...
HAYLEY ATWELL I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
DR. DRE I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like ...
EMMA DONOGHUE Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets d...
DANIELA PESTOVA And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank ...
JASON REITMAN I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm c...
WILMA RUDOLPH I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
BOB EDWARDS Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes ...
KYM WHITLEY My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recogniz...
HOWARD SCHULTZ I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
SAM WYLY I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real l...
ELLEN DATLOW I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my ...
ELEANOR CATTON I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get moti...
BONNIE TYLER There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time -...
CHARLIE SHEEN Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up ...
JENNY LEWIS I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opport...
JOHN GREEN Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground...
ABBY WAMBACH Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's ...
NATHALIE SARRAUTE I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.
CURTIS SLIWA I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marpl...
TALULAH RILEY I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went...
GLENN GREENWALD suffocating siege and ongoing oppression.
YASSER ARAFAT I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever...
CHRIS RASCHKA For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an ...
EDITH GROSSMAN I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I'...
KURT VONNEGUT I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the...
JANE SIBERRY I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'ROURKE My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in...
LESLI LINKA GLATTER I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do th...
ANNIE POTTS I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ...
GAIL CARRIGER As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the ...
PER PETTERSON People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and t...
BLAKE LIVELY I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy...
T. C. BOYLE My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the T...
BECKI NEWTON What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors....
PAULO COELHO There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air ...
AARON RODGERS Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the ...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. I've always said that music is like literature.
JOSE CARRERAS Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sor...
CARRIE COON One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for...
MARTIN FILLER I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I&#...
DOUG AITKEN The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's...
RACHEL AUTUMN DEERING I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she ...
MARIE OSMOND I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my specia...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the a...
JON SECADA Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
LYDIA LUNCH … I don't know what to say.'
‘That’s okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.�...
ÉLISE TURCOTTE Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to...
MARCEL PROUST How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to fi...
DANIEL TAMMET I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops....
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.
EILEEN MYLES I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of bein...
ZADIE SMITH I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or ...
MURRAY BARTLETT In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
ANNE RICE I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic...
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M. C. GAINEY When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suf...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Mediocrity is contextual.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movem...
CONOR MCGREGOR I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that so...
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I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
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ARMAND ASSANTE I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.
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