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 went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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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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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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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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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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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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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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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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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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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'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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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.
