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.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Healthy
  • Three
  • Big

• Politics is the art of the possible.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Possible

• I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Movies

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Healthy

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• 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
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• 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
  • Done
  • Think
  • Crazy

• 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
  • Think
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• 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
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Feel
  • Matters

• The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Choose
  • Married

• I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Power
  • Help
  • Know

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Justice
  • Personal
  • Demand

• 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!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Happiness
  • Fair
  • Economists

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Free
  • Constitution
  • Opinions

• When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Jobs
  • Songs
  • Mixed

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• 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
  • Always
  • Stories
  • Everything