Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.Hanya Yanagihara
Quotes to Explore
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
Wanda Sykes -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Barry Ritholtz -
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey -
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
Kassie DePaiva -
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby -
Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
Verite -
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal -
I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
Bear Bryant -
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
Ursula Burns -
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun -
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
Iman
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Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy.
Ralph Steadman -
I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.
Lamman Rucker -
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul -
The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
Alyssa Milano -
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles -
The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
Hanya Yanagihara