Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
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My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.
