Zachary Lazar Quotes
What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.Zachary Lazar
Quotes to Explore
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo -
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot -
I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
Frances McDormand -
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
Faye Marsay -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
Karl Pilkington -
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Gary Ackerman -
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
Edmund Phelps -
When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.
Palmer Luckey -
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Edmund Hillary
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And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
Joan Collins -
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
Eddi Reader -
It was back in 2011 that everything changed. I was not a healthy eater at all. Up until that point, I was a student and a complete sugar addict.
Ella Woodward -
Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.
Rabih Alameddine -
What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
Zachary Lazar