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 -
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 -
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
Patrick Geddes
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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 -
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
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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 -
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
Kate Smith -
We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.
Anushka Sharma -
For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Marilyn Monroe -
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
Jim Gaffigan -
Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'
Daniel Suarez -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian