Darin Strauss Quotes

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

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• If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Peace

• I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • People
  • Home
  • Hate

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Life
  • Character
  • Job

• When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Like
  • Just
  • Camera

• Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Human
  • Destiny
  • Patterns

• Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Own

• We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Support
  • Training
  • Security

• It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Culture
  • Nothing
  • Dead

• For me, Warhol made so much sense.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Made
  • Sense

• I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Love
  • Magic
  • Ventriloquism

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Devil
  • Adversity

• My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Family
  • Business
  • House

• As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• I think Michael Moore is a hero.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Hero
  • Michael

• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Chance
  • Trouble
  • Devil

• People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

  

  Andrea Arnold
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • People
  • Time

• [Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Nation

• Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Learn

• A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

  

  Darin Strauss