Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.
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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
Colson Whitehead -
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
