Michelle Dean Quotes

When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.

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• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Country
  • Maybe
  • Month

• All my songs are where I am.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Songs

• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Something
  • Abundance
  • Tune

• I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Paranoia

• I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mission

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Film

• One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Just
  • Ready

• If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Ocean

• That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Rock
  • Opinion
  • Choices

• My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Value

• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Style
  • Animal
  • Ego

• I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • Music
  • Kids
  • America

• I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

  

  Kevin James
  • College
  • Laughing
  • Class

• I think a reasonable number has been discussed which we are satisfied with and of course it will be more specific when we have the resolution.

  

  Abdullah Abdullah
  • Satisfied
  • Number
  • Resolution

• When you get great stuff to do, you just don't want to let anybody down.

  

  Rick Hoffman
  • Want
  • Stuff

• This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Language
  • Magic
  • Speak

• Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Worth
  • Sacrificing

• The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

  

  Ian Lowe
  • Future

• When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.

  

  Michelle Dean
  • Pieces
  • Million
  • Everywhere