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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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
Harriet Walter
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I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
U Thant
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In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.
Allen Tate
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
Matthew McConaughey
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For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
Brian Selznick
