Rebecca Makkai Quotes
I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.
Rebecca Makkai
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Isaac D'Israeli
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
Talulah Riley
Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.
J. B. Pritzker
Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
Zoe Sugg
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the following Sirius/XM Radio stations: NFL Radio, MLB Radio, POTUS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.
R. J. Cutler
If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
Matt Lauer
When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.
Leslie Jamison
Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.
Leslie Jamison
I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
Kathleen Edwards
You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
Nellie McKay
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
Mark McKinnon
I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
Luke Evans
I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.
Lauren Weisberger
What I have to show, I show on the track.
Alan Oliveira
In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
Stevie Wonder
I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.
Rebecca Makkai
