Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

Hanya Yanagihara

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• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Job
  • Sleep

• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Man

• Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Always
  • Name
  • Writer

• How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • World
  • Gold

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Minister

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Children
  • Better

• I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eyes

• When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Society
  • You
  • Educated

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • World
  • Man
  • Smart

• My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Change
  • Childhood
  • Lot

• You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
  • Victim
  • Heal

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People
  • Career
  • California

• You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • May
  • Texas

• You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • California
  • New York
  • Texas