David Foster Wallace Quotes
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.David Foster Wallace
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown -
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
Barbara Kruger -
Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
Floyd Skloot -
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney -
I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
La'Porsha Renae -
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
Rachel Nichols -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah -
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
Damien Chazelle -
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Aaron Hill -
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
Taron Egerton -
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
Taylor Negron
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
Rachel Cusk -
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
Vera Farmiga -
You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
Gary Coleman -
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
Sami Gayle
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I get I style inspiration everywhere: the streets of New York, magazines... everywhere!
Kelly Rutherford -
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
Luis Fortuno -
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
Sam Altman -
We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
Freddie Hubbard -
When I'm in love, I wake up happy.
Enrique Iglesias -
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace