Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Play
  • Kid
  • Back

• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• I was a really big kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Big

• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Kid
  • Lucky
  • Just

• I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Always

• If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Different
  • School
  • You

• New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Culture
  • New
  • New York

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
  • School
  • Christian
  • Kid

• I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kid
  • Used
  • Sculpt

• I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Start
  • New York
  • Finish

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Friends
  • True
  • Three

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Kitchen
  • Kid

• I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • School
  • Business
  • English

• I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • New York
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Earth
  • Child

• I see through my eyes, not with them.

  

  William Blake
  • Eyes
  • See

• ...if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of 'corybulous', 'hypogeum', 'plangent', 'irrefragably', 'glozening', 'tellurian', 'conclamant', sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Up

• The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Goodness
  • Intention

• If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Success

• Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Earth
  • New York
  • Kid