Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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I feel like it's always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you know you look tired, when you curl eyelashes and put mascara it makes such a huge difference, so that's the trick that I always use.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.
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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
