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.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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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.
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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.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Midi is my hobby.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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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.
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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.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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.
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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.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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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.
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I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.
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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.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
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Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
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I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.
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The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
