Adam Haslett Quotes

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

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• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Far

• I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Done
  • Song
  • Proud

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Being
  • Year
  • Very

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Music
  • Children
  • Choices

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Place

• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Time
  • Job
  • Power

• The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Small
  • Difficult
  • Big

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Drug

• I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Long
  • American
  • Sometimes

• My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Interested
  • Press

• Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth- for all men together to enjoy.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Work
  • God
  • Men

• Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging ... making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Done
  • Pain

• If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.

  

  Charles Darwin

• I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Together
  • Universe
  • Understanding

• He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Walks
  • Tiptoe
  • Solid Ground

• Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.

  

  Eran Kolirin
  • Israel
  • Criticize
  • Palestinians

• History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • History
  • Capacity
  • Worse

• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

  

  Adam Haslett
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  • Readers