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.
Rebecca Makkai
Quotes to Explore
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
Mahesh Babu
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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.
Harmony Korine
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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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.
Maeve Binchy
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel
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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.'
Taylor Swift
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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.
Gary Shteyngart
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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.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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.
Barry Corbin
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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.
Lara St. John
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
Sally Ride
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I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.
Vidya Balan
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
Sadie Jones
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Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.
Bai Juyi
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
Victoria Moran
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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.
Rebecca Makkai
