Darin Strauss Quotes
Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.
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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
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I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.
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I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
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Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
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Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.
