Stewart O'Nan Quotes
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.
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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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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
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I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
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You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
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I have an original voice. It may not be the best voice, but it's distinct, and I think that's what has carried me through the years.
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It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.
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If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
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During my high-risk pregnancy, I consistently experienced subpar care from my hospital, which led me to hire two midwives instead. They provided me with excellent and loving care, and they made my pregnancy a truly special and powerful moment in my life.
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The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
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Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.
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His lips, his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
