Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
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Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.
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As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
