Rebecca Makkai Quotes
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
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The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
