Zach Condon Quotes

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Like
  • Rock
  • More

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Small
  • Loss

• I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Fun

• I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Different
  • Opinion

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • City
  • Feel

• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Alone

• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Woman

• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Job
  • Water

• I am a recovering alcoholic.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Alcoholic
  • Recovering

• I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Mind

• What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Computer
  • Windows
  • License

• An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

  

  Emile Faguet
  • Liberal
  • Anarchist

• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Down

• After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

  

  Zach Condon