Michael Showalter Quotes
I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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Fate is not in man but around him.
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As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev's efforts to charm the American public.
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I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.
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I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
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My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
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People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.
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I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.
