Ma Jian Quotes
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer -
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens -
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
J. Cole -
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
Hannah Mills -
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
Zack Snyder -
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
Patrick Geddes -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos -
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini -
I keep in touch with what's real.
Sam Claflin -
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
Park Chan-wook -
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Padgett Powell -
Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
Zach LaVine -
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
Talulah Riley -
Singing is a prayer to me.
Aaron Neville -
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski -
Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.
Haim Ginott -
I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
Jerry Herman -
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
Rita Mae Brown -
I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.
Maya Hawke -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian