Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
