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.

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• 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
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• 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
  • Wife
  • Honest
  • Meat

• Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Far
  • Governor

• I'd love to play Wonder Woman.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• 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
  • People
  • Painting

• Copiers do not collaborate.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Collaborate
  • Copiers

• 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
  • Money
  • Girl
  • Cool

• I've never had the patience of a teacher.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Teacher
  • Patience

• 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
  • Giving
  • Eyes
  • Achievement

• 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
  • Work
  • Silly

• 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
  • World
  • War
  • Help

• 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
  • Food
  • Paris

• I feel good. I think everything went good.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Music
  • Written
  • Jealous

• Staying in China provided me with the opportunity to adjust to life outside of North Korea and to gain a sense of perspective, most importantly, by learning that so much of what I had been taught about my country was a lie.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Life
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

  

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Fantasy

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Challenges
  • Despite