Rebecca Makkai Quotes
We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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A book brings its own history to the reader.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
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When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.
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Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
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We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
