Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Excellence always sells.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.
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So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.
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A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you're staking something more precious - your time. And unlike VCs, you can't spread your risk by betting on a bunch of companies at once. Start with TAM. That's 'total addressable market,' and if it's not big enough, there's no point in talking.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
