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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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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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 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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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I have my fashion empire to build.
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At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
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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.
