Janet Malcolm Quotes
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.Janet Malcolm
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
Patrick Wilson -
Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
Maddie Ziegler -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
Orlando Bloom -
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
Utada Hikaru -
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen -
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Youssou N'Dour -
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
Safra A. Catz
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‘Look at her,’ said Patrick, ‘pacing around the cage of her Valentino dress, longing to be released into her natural habitat.’
Edward St Aubyn -
As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
Alice Greczyn -
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Tacitus -
I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
Cameron Winklevoss -
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen -
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
Janet Malcolm