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 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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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 was more active pregnant than I ever was not pregnant. I was doing Body By Simone five days a week. That definitely helped me shed the weight after giving birth. But it's all smoke and mirrors, too. People on Instagram forget that you're showing them what you want them to see. We have filters.
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My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.
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Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.
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How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
