David Remnick Quotes

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Black
  • New York
  • Dress

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Year
  • More

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Always
  • Find
  • Racism

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Science
  • Professional

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Sad

• In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • California

• Therapy's like going to the gym.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Gym

• When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

  

  Mark Hamill
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

  

  David Remnick
  • Different