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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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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.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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I absolutely love spending time with my family.
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I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
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I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little bit, but on either side of the aisle, there seems to be different tacts. On one side of the aisle, you see a proposed scaling back of Dodd-Frank. On the other, a proposed reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.
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I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible
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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.
