Naomi Alderman Quotes

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

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• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Trump

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
  • I Can
  • Skills

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Running

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Man

• We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Everybody

• About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Problem

• The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Past

• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Trying
  • Idea
  • Someone

• That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Job

• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Trying

• Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Bad

• I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Women

• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Working
  • Knowing
  • Lawyers

• What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

  

  Naomi Alderman
  • Trying
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