Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.
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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
