Sigrid Nunez Quotes
You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.
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We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
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Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.
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During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
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But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.
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You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.
