Alissa Nutting Quotes

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

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• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Single

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Result
  • Sophisticated

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Support

• Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Song
  • Place

• When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Good
  • Myself

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Best
  • Self

• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Theory
  • Experiment
  • Naive

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Imagination
  • Vivid

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Early
  • Racing

• I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Latin
  • Parts

• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Responsibility
  • Artist
  • Piano

• In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Joy
  • Eternity
  • Suffered

• I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Dating

• You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

  

  George S. Kaufman
  • Fool
  • Living
  • Paradise

• Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Living
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  • Diary