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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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 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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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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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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Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi!
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I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
