Brian Selznick Quotes
For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
Brian Selznick
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
Zach LaVine
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
Dan Gable
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
Karen Handel
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
Vin Scully
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
Tao Lin
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
Emma Watson
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The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
James Carville
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I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
Paula Hawkins
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
Oscar Wilde
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For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
Brian Selznick
