Koren Zailckas Quotes
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.
Quotes to Explore
-
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
-
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
-
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
-
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
-
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
-
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
-
My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
-
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
-
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
-
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
-
I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
-
Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.
-
When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
-
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
-
I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
-
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
-
I've always wanted to learn the Argentine tango.
-
I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
-
I don't feel as though I am under any pressure to return to Australia, given I won the PGA Championship, and I am just hoping everyone back home will understand my situation. I just want to make sure I am there for Ellie and that she has my support when she has our second child.
-
My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.
-
It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.
-
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
-
I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
-
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.
