Richard Russo Quotes
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.Richard Russo
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
Dan Jenkins -
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
Aasif Mandvi -
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
Fidel Castro -
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
Larry Page -
I'm like a sight gag.
Adam Driver -
Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
Mallory Ortberg
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The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
J. Anthony Lukas -
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac -
New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
Sam Yagan -
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
Zygmunt Bauman -
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
Sam Raimi -
When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty -
I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
J. J. Watt -
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu -
You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
Canelo Alvarez -
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
Valerie Plame
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
Sally Ride -
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
Larry Elder -
The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.
Butch Vig Garbage -
But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
Richard Morris -
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
Richard Russo