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 don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Black
  • Term

• Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Thing

• All Indians must dance, everywhere keep on dancing.

  

  Wovoka
  • Dance
  • Everywhere
  • Indians

• Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it.

  

  Michael Savage
  • Pieces
  • Sexuality
  • Homosexuality

• The worldview of the classical sciences conceptualized nature as a giant machine composed of intricate but replaceable machine-like parts. The new systems sciences look at nature as an organism endowed with irreplaceable elements and an innate but non-deterministic purpose for choice, for flow, for spontaneity.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Purpose
  • Choice
  • Sciences

• 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