Darin Strauss Quotes

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

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• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You
  • Thought
  • Original

• Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Realize
  • Other

• My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Serious

• I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Always
  • Fight

• When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

  

  B. B. King
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Loved

• Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

  

  John Ciardi
  • Art
  • Stop

• 'Take me home,' Snow White said. 'Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.'

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Home
  • Snow

• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  

  Chris Pine
  • She
  • Dad
  • Crazy

• I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Just Because

• The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • She
  • Freedom
  • Interesting