Alissa Nutting Quotes

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

Alissa Nutting

• Person
• Part
• Adolescence

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Always
  • Which

• Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Confident
  • Only
  • Prepared

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Night
  • Beginning
  • End

• I love reading books that can break my heart.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Books

• It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Poor
  • Cause
  • Which

• In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Sense

• I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Myself

• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Ireland

• Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Success
  • Man

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Love
  • Myself

• If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Money

• In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Honest

• I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Disappointment
  • Rejection

• In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

  

  Colm O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Special
  • To Do

• Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.

  

  Nina Kuscsik
  • Running
  • Part
  • Daily Life

• I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Person
  • Part
  • Adolescence