Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Change
  • Attention

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Finance

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Depend

• I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Model
  • inspirational

• Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • She
  • Me
  • Pop

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk. . . I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it was suggested that Walt Disney or some educational cartoon producer be enlisted in [the] debunking process.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Blue

• Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Reason
  • Garden

• Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • More

• Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Up
  • High

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me