Mallory Ortberg Quotes
I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.Mallory Ortberg
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie -
Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
Iggy Pop -
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian -
I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
Rachel McAdams -
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
Fidel Castro -
Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
Rachel Cusk -
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono -
I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
Daniel Craig -
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud -
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
Babyface -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
Dan Jenkins -
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot -
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact.
Albert Bandura -
I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
Carrie Fisher -
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier -
I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
Mallory Ortberg