I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, … - Leni Zumas

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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

Leni Zumas

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

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The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

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Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

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Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good. "

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Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

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Malcolm Bradbury

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

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An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

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Mindy Kaling

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

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