Eula Biss Quotes

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

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• I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Today

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Break
  • Away

• Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Reality
  • India
  • Goat

• My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Celebrate my escape, sold the Glock, bought some weight. Laid back, I got some money to make. Motherfucker!

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Money

• I wore a blue spandex outfit and a gold belt. It was goofy and off-the-wall, but I love doing things like that.

  

  Alison Lohman
  • Wall
  • Gold
  • Blue

• You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

  

  Don Lemon
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Political
  • Financial

• I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

  

  Christie Hefner

• For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking inside the window, wanting to be in the party. I think it breeds good feelings.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Reality

• I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

  

  Steven Millhauser
  • World
  • Words
  • Place

• Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

  

  Eula Biss
  • Believe
  • Cruelty