Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

I'm not independently wealthy.

Mark Z. Danielewski

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• Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Me
  • Nervous
  • Mouth

• We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Baby
  • Healthy

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Nervous
  • Admit

• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Learning

• Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Sense
  • Wrong
  • Often

• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Creation
  • Research
  • Farming

• To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Business
  • Leader
  • Research

• At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Party
  • Day
  • Myself

• We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Great
  • Know
  • Perfect

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Young

• Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Play
  • Drum

• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Start

• It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Important
  • You
  • Know

• Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Power
  • Freedom

• When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Money

• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Willing

• Self-justification - that is, claiming one's innocence and thus in the final analysis blaming God - is an inheritance we have received from Adam and Eve. Even the worst criminals have this urge to exonerate themselves. They claim innocence in the face of the most heinous crimes. Prison chaplains write that there is no place like prison to find so many self-righteous people, maintaining that they are actually innocent. They think they have been imprisoned unjustly. We human beings have an excuse for everything and thus we see no reason why we should repent and turn from our ways. If we think we are in the right, that we have good reason to justify ourselves and say that we are not guilty, why should we repent?

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Guilty
  • Prison
  • Human Beings

• In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, 'Maybe I'll stop dancing for a bit.' It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Lost
  • Running
  • Stop

• I'm not independently wealthy.

  

  Mark Z. Danielewski