Gary Shteyngart Quotes
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.
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Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
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I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.
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I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
