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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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!
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The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
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You have to be more disciplined every day to get better and learn the game.
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
