Adam Haslett Quotes
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.Adam Haslett
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
Dan Marino -
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
Laura Wade -
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
Ted Cruz -
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell -
You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
Victoria Pendleton -
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
Daniel Everett
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
Yuji Horii -
The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Garth Hudson -
On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
Igor Luksic -
By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
Walter Dean Myers -
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
Oksana Baiul
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
Edie Falco -
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
Barry Ritholtz -
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
Edgar Mitchell -
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
Oliver Hudson -
I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
Britt Daniel -
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
Jane Smiley
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When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.
Lindsey Buckingham -
Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
Adam Grant -
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
John le Carre -
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
Xavi -
Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
Johnny Colt The Black Crowes -
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.
Adam Haslett