Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
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I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.
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I think you need a little fat in your diet.
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I like to live a healthy life.
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..the sort of white crepe dough with which the person is thickly buttered in the 'Haute Pâtes' series, Dubuffet made in 1946 was, by its proximity to the tar, dyed the color of burnt bread like a used Meerschaum pipe.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.
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People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.
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Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!
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I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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But I've also been around this town long enough to know that when nobody is calling you and saying, 'Hang in there,' that isn't a great signal either.
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The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.
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The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.
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...there is almost nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
