Michael Chabon Quotes
Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
Michael Chabon
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People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.
Becky G
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I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
Flume
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The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.'
Andrew Marr
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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...
Bertrand Russell
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Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
Albert Camus
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It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
Lennart Nilsson
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Andre Dubus III
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A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
Christian Louboutin
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I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.
Antonya Nelson
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'Fast & Furious' is Hollywood's 'Dabangg.' It is that big there, so it obviously feels amazing to have played a part in it. The role is small but very interesting. People will see me in full Hollywood accent, and the character is not like typical Indian character.
Ali Fazal
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The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.
Matt Damon
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A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.
Lao Tzu
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove
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Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
Tadeusz Borowski
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi
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My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.
Jesmyn Ward
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Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
Michael Chabon
