Nicole Krauss Quotes
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
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I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
