Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I was a really big kid.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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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.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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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.
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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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.
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an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
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Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
