Josh Malerman Quotes
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.
Colson Whitehead -
No makeup can substitute for faces that have actually been under the sun.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
