Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Quotes to Explore
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
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Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
