Rebecca Makkai Quotes
Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
