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.Hanya Yanagihara
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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.
Edie Campbell -
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.
Dan Marino -
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld -
The pace of television is very different from film.
Octavia Spencer -
I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
Zach Roerig -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
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.
Tariq Ramadan -
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
Canelo Alvarez -
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
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.
Patrick Kane
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams
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The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
J. G. Ballard -
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
Azar Nafisi -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.
Jenna Bush -
I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara