Darin Strauss Quotes
What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.
Quotes to Explore
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
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When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.
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A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.
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Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.
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I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.
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What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.
