Darin Strauss Quotes

You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Water
  • Cool

• I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • Know
  • Play

• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • War
  • Easy

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Period
  • Fans
  • Blessing

• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Life
  • America
  • Free

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• I definitely would not do a reality show.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Would

• People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Me
  • Stop

• The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • She
  • Today
  • Value

• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • King
  • White

• The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Instant replay ought to be thrown out. Period. It's a game of imperfections. Why is that so bad for the game? Really, I think they are trying to make the game perfect. I'll tell you what: It will never, ever be perfect.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Bad

• I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • School
  • Character
  • Angel

• You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Character
  • Bad