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 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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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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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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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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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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My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....
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'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'
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This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
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Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.
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When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.
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People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy.
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I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.
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I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.
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My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
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While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
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I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.
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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
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My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
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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.
