Kathryn Minshew Quotes
I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
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We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human. I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic. When I see this kind of stuff, I think, they're smart, but I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
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In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.
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I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
