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“Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.”

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Former President of France, born on August 12, 1954. François Hollande served as the President of France from 2012 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialist Party and is known for his moderate policies and emphasis on social justice. more

“I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.”

Thinking Way Important Form Literature Term Forever Alive New York Responsible Jazz Narrative Tyrants Consumed Riot Niche Being Responsible

Author:Nick Antosca

“I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Reason Character Stories Happens Today Turns Voice Tvs Demand Surprise Things Happen Storytelling Mediums Memorable Sensibility Vivid Reversal

Author:Nick Antosca

“I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.”

“I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.”

Hands Lasts Hurt Week Tvs Exercise Weight Shoulders Lifts Watching Tv Push Ups

Author:Nick Antosca

“I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell.”

Ifs World Want Writing Kind Littles I Can Different Reason Home Wanted Rooms Imagine Involved Not Sure No Reason Our World Parallels

Author:Vito Acconci

“I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography; I skipped that phase totally, I think.”

Thinking Writing Wanted Notion Phases Autobiography Diaries

Author:Vito Acconci

“Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.”

Ifs Writing Made Labor Awkward

Author:Vito Acconci

“Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper Johns was how important it is to start with a convention, how important it is to start with what everybody knows and everybody takes for granted, whether it's a number, an alphabet letter, a set of alphabet letters, a target.”

Knows Writing Important Wanted Numbers Painting Letters Yeah Granted Target Conventions Alphabet

Author:Vito Acconci

“I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that time I had come across a critic called Kenneth Burke, who wrote a book called A Rhetoric of Motives, and it seemed to talk about another way, and gradually I realized that other way was that the reader made a difference.”

Way Writing Made Book Differences Reader Criticism Critics I Realized Motive Rhetoric Another Way Kenneth

Author:Vito Acconci

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