Darin Strauss Quotes

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

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• What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Doors
  • Before
  • Neighborhood

• It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Model

• I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Worst

• I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Good
  • Always
  • Making

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Liberty
  • Doors

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Water
  • Architecture

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Great
  • Moments

• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Humble
  • Most
  • Jealousy

• As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Live
  • Want
  • Kind

• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • May
  • Friends
  • Think

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • You
  • Decisions

• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Feel
  • Frightened

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Now
  • Bigger
  • Late

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Movie
  • Black
  • City

• Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

  

  Baker Brownell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Value

• We can divide bitcoin people into two camps: one that goes along with the existing system and wants it to work complimentarily with the existing system, and then the other half is basically religiously opposed and wants to invent a libertarian, regulation-free world.

  

  Melanie Swan
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Like a child, too, he was warm, unaffected, and selfish. He had the combination, irresistible to women, of ruthlessness and tenderness.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Women
  • Child
  • Selfish

• If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

  

  Darin Strauss