Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
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I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and honest and that they can relate to emotionally.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
