Phil Klay Quotes
Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
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I really wish that I was, like, strong enough to not go online.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
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Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
