Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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My mother taught me to read.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
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I was a big fan of 'Days of Our Lives' growing up.
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We live in an age of miracles.
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I have not yet begun to fight!
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
