Darin Strauss Quotes
I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
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I consider myself black.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.
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I would do anything that helps people do things better. Even if the Indian government comes to me for anything, I would be very open.
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Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
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One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words nasty and objectionable.
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I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.
