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.

Rebecca Makkai

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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've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

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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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• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

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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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• And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.

  

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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

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• Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.

  

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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.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Sometimes
  • Poor
  • Through