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 legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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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 a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
