Rebecca Makkai Quotes
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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I never use that word, retire.
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
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I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
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My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
