Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
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Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
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There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
