Walter Kirn Quotes
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.Walter Kirn
Quotes to Explore
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy -
Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
Cameron Dallas -
I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
Omari Hardwick -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
Gayle Forman -
Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
Nancy Gibbs -
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman -
I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
Olivia DeJonge -
Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
Lajos Egri
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
Jackson Katz -
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman -
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
Tamara Tunie -
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde -
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Marquis de Lafayette
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Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.
Stevie Wonder -
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Ovid -
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?
G. Edward Griffin -
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn