John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Years

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Today
  • Very

• Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Amazing
  • Dancer
  • Maddie Ziegler

• I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Open
  • Dogs

• What does dating mean?

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Dating

• Ch. 4 : The Garden

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Garden

• What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

  

  Mirriam Johnson

• I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Heart
  • Singing

• I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Rock

• I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Up
  • Girl

• If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Important
  • Workout

• I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Write

• Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

  

  Angie Everhart

• I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

  

  Burn Gorman
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I'm pretty simple. I have every product in the world, but I tend to use three things: cleanser, toner, and moisturizer.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Light

• Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Know

• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Faithful

• I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Money
  • Temptation
  • Drugs

• Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Laugh
  • Temptation
  • Immunity

• At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Temptation