Eve Babitz Quotes

I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

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• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Afraid

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Change
  • Organization
  • Adapt

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

  

  Mahavira
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Forgiveness

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Free

• Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Place

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Fingers

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Like

• I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Teenager
  • Master

• Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Marriage
  • Lose
  • Bank

• I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Think
  • Saying

• The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Woman
  • Sophisticated
  • Chic

• And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Book
  • Read
  • Last Time

• Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Want
  • End
  • Credit

• My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Cardio

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

  

  Eve Babitz
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