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

• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Wish

• You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Me

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

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• 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

• I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Free
  • Anger

• I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Sleep

• 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 was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Good
  • Different
  • Song

• 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

• If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Bad
  • Knowledge
  • Proud

• What's important is to be myself! To dream doesn't mean putting yourself in a box. It means realizing the essence... of what you really want to do.

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Essense

• Once you're finally in a place at Saturday Night Live that you're really comfortable, that's when you should probably be leaving, unfortunately. I think most people stay two or three years longer than they should, because it's very simple, the vacations are great, and you get good at what you do. It's like any job, you're like, "Oh, I know how to do this." You know it's a temporary thing, but it's easy not to walk away from. You find yourself going, "I'll leave next year, or I'll leave the year after." But it's a job you probably shouldn't be at for longer than five years, to be honest.

  

  Horatio Sanz
  • Night
  • Simple
  • Honest

• There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

  

  William Halsey
  • Men
  • Challenges
  • Volunteer

• 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