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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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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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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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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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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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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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 work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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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.
