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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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.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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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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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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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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My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
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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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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.
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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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My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."
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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
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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.
