Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
