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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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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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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As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
