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.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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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.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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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.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
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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.
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Copiers do not collaborate.
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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.
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I've never had the patience of a teacher.
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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.
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Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.
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Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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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.
