Susan Orlean Quotes

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

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• I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Reason
  • Look

• During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Father

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Looks

• With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Job
  • Fun

• I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • World
  • Support
  • Myself

• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Looks
  • Look
  • Distance

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Development

• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Chance
  • Commitment
  • Will

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Live
  • True
  • Feeling

• There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Fight
  • Girls

• Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Support
  • Nice
  • Red

• Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Play
  • Competition
  • Golf

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Home
  • Want
  • Independent

• I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Want
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • World
  • Future
  • Risk

• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

  

  Susan Orlean
  • Want
  • Sentence
  • Mastery