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.

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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

• In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • People
  • Age
  • Criticism

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

  

  John Gardner
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Devil

• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • Different
  • Science
  • Temptation

• Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• 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