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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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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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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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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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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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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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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Satan is pure spirit. He often appears as something else, to mislead. He appeared to Padre Pio as Jesus, to frighten him. He sometimes appears as a raging animal.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
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I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
