John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Place

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Water

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Men
  • Love
  • Young

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• At KIND, our purpose is to spark kindness.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Purpose
  • Kindness

• I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.

  

  Ken Buck
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I can make you rich. I'll change your bum life. You fight me, it's a celebration. When you sign to fight me, it's a celebration. You ring back home, you ring your wife, 'Baby, we've done it. We're rich baby. Conor McGregor made us rich. Break out the red panties.'

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Life
  • Done
  • Home

• My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Fascists

• Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Wife
  • Daughter