Nicole Krauss Quotes
There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
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Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
