Marisha Pessl Quotes

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

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• I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Time
  • Work

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • Work
  • Writing

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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  • Past

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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  • Right
  • Half

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
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  • Music
  • Moments

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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  • Day
  • Dignity

• I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
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  • Myself

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
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• I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  

  Sally Kirkland
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  • Book

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
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  • Family

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • God
  • Chaos

• For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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  • Good
  • Words

• I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.

  

  Andy Grammer
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  • Great
  • Awesome

• Any time I need to be really physical, and a role requires that, you're kind of viscerally activated by being that physical in it. It takes away the thought process, which is fun.

  

  Matthew Fox
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  • Fun

• There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Night
  • Fashion
  • Fly

• I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.

  

  Elif Batuman
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• Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the 24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older.

  

  Keke Palmer
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• I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Time
  • Writing