Garth Stein Quotes
I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I would like to see America some day.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Small aim is a crime.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
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The trick is after a workout you're supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out. Of course, it's all about protein, too, but right before you're filming a shirtless scene, you have a little bit of sugar to pop the veins.
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What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
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Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
