Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
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• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
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  • Travel

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
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• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
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• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
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• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
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• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
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• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
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• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• I'm a dork!

  

  Cameron Russell
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• You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

  

  Action Bronson
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• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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  • Music
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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

  

  Bob Uecker
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• I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

  

  Joseph Bologna

• When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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• I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

  

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