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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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.
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Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.
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Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
