Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.Jeffrey Eugenides
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea -
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls -
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
Yami Gautam -
I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
T. J. Miller
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
Kate Moss -
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
Natalie Massenet -
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson -
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe -
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift -
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
Olga Kurylenko -
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
R. L. Stine -
I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
Olivia Holt -
I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.
Dave Holland -
Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.
Conleth Hill -
I think the Internet is a key driver of opening up opportunities, which impacts many things, including development - I will repeat that I am not a fan of looking at technology or the Internet in Africa through the lens of development - we love the Internet for sake of the Internet.
Ory Okolloh -
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
Jeffrey Eugenides