Nell Zink Quotes
When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It's like when people would make mixtapes and say, 'Here are the songs I think you should know.'
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.
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When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It's like when people would make mixtapes and say, 'Here are the songs I think you should know.'
