Phil Klay Quotes
I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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No one ever wanted to see it as anything other than a boring play about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis. I think it’s about rather more than that - or maybe it’s not. Maybe that’s exactly what it is about.
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Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.
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I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
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I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!
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I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
