John D'Agata Quotes
In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
John D'Agata
Quotes to Explore
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
Sam Shepard
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Ian Hart
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
Dan Pink
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
T. S. Eliot
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I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
Walt Disney
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There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
John Deacon
Queen
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
Lady Gaga
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In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
John D'Agata
