Rebecca Makkai Quotes
Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.Rebecca Makkai
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
Dan Hicks -
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
Q-Tip -
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
Wayne Newton -
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
Randa Haines -
I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
Aaron Tveit -
My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.
J. B. Smoove
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
Adam McKay -
I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
Katee Sackhoff -
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
Mary Beard -
Copiers do not collaborate.
Antoni Gaudi -
I'm just me. I'm that cool girl who - as I like to say, I have that Carson Daly effect, where, if you watched 'TRL,' he was able to do interviews with NSYNC, blend right in, and then he would do interviews with Cash Money and blend in there, and you just naturally liked him.
Karen Civil -
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
Josh Turner
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
James S. Coleman -
I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
Mary Steenburgen -
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
Charles Lindbergh -
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
Charlie Trotter -
Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.
Lynn Coady -
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
Dylan Moran -
I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
Andy Grove -
Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.
Rebecca Makkai