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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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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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
Magic Johnson
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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 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.
Kangana Ranaut
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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.
Adam Hicks
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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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A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
Kelly Jones
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I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.
Anne Stuart
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Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
Texas Guinan
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
Val Kilmer
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
Carl Honore
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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
