Dan Chaon Quotes

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

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• When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Love
  • Together

• I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Money
  • Think
  • Dad

• I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

  

  Ed Case
  • Good
  • Country
  • Chance

• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Home

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

  

  Levon Helm

• A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.

  

  Efua Dorkenoo
  • Different
  • Together
  • Help

• I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.

  

  David Roberts
  • Different
  • Past

• If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back