Richard Russo Quotes
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey
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We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
Maddie Ziegler
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
Edith Widder
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
Gary Johnson
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Vernon Howard
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I hate birthdays.
Zane Grey
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I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
Lady Gaga
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
Barack Obama
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
Barack Obama
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson
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Jochum had said, 'You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer.'
Malcolm Bradbury
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Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Aldous Huxley
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All of a sudden, I'm thinking, these guys Afghani men aren't so bad. I'm like the type of asshole where if you're nice to me once, I'm your friend for life. Sure, you hacked your kid's clit off, but you were nice!
Kathy Griffin
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
Alan Moore
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
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Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir
Carrie Fisher
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
Richard Russo