Anthony Swofford Quotes

There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

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• I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  

  Taye Diggs
  • I Love
  • Watching
  • Choreographer

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • School
  • America
  • High

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Love
  • Will

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Drama

• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature

• Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)

  

  Sallust

• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Daily

• Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• Raffi: I can too marry Stone Cold Steve Austin when I grow up!Bill: Clarice, what are you teaching this kid?Bill Jr.: You can not, 'cause I'm gonna marry him, and we're gonna kick your butt!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Cold

• I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • House

• My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Brother
  • Hipster

• I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran

• My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Mother
  • Faith
  • Grandmother

• When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Words
  • Moments

• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Achieve
  • Results
  • Economic

• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Former
  • Latter

• There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

  

  Anthony Swofford
  • Life
  • Public
  • Private