Stewart O'Nan Quotes
Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.Stewart O'Nan
Quotes to Explore
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw -
You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
Eddie Perez -
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Natalie Goldberg
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou -
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
Edmund Morgan -
There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving -
Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
Valerie Plame -
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
Iman -
I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
Mandy Moore
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My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee -
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
Aldo Leopold -
You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
Mary Beard -
I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.
Anderson Silva -
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
Jeff Lindsay -
Any aspirational job is tough because everyone wants to do it.
Katherine Kelly
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I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which doesn't exist anymore.
Jeff Buckley -
I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.
Jessica Biel -
The Champions League is very difficult - there are so many big teams in Europe, and one bad day, and you can be out.
Arjen Robben -
Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
Stewart O'Nan