Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
Zachary Quinto
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
Frances Beinecke
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
Carl Hiaasen
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
Kangana Ranaut
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
Sam Worthington
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
Sabrina Carpenter
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.
Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
Laura Schlessinger
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I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
Lady Gaga
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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
Dick Wolf
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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
Brian Reynolds Myers