Rebecca Makkai Quotes
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
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We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
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Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
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Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.
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Time is what creates trust.
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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
