Neil Strauss Quotes

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

Neil Strauss

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• The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Return
  • Defeat
  • Terrorists

• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Poems

• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • For Her
  • Invisible

• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.

  

  Gary Carr
  • People
  • Nice
  • Always

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Spotlight

• I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Model

• I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.

  

  Luke Donald

• To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.

  

  Ken Marino
  • People
  • Small
  • Education

• Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Nature
  • Words

• I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Time
  • Understanding

• I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Animal

• Gay is not a choice.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Gay

• I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

  

  Kathryn Lasky

• The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • Ego

• I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • People
  • Hope

• I loved the guy, he was the greatest and I’m crushed by it, i thought that he’d come out of this one too, because he was the greatest.

  

  Chuck Wepner
  • Guy
  • Greatest
  • Crushed

• I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

  

  John Crowley
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Game

• I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

  

  James A. Moore
  • Real
  • Art
  • Hope

• With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

  

  Rory McIlroy
  • High
  • Success
  • Expectation

• Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Expectation
  • Unspoken
  • Resentments