Chad Harbach Quotes

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Football

• I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Style
  • Create
  • Vintage

• The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Together
  • Doing
  • Internet

• You are what you think.

  

  Ben Carson

• I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

  

  Angus King

• When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Service
  • Mood

• I think Rudimental was a massive part of my life and such a great place and people and learning curve to be a part of.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

  

  Liz Williams
  • Different
  • Children

• News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Work

• Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

  

  Aime Cesaire
  • Sacrifice

• I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too - like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice.

  

  Alice Dellal
  • Scary

• People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Attention
  • Meaningful

• I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

  

  Jonathan Kozol

• Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

  

  Andy Van Slyke

• I remember looking my father in the eye and saying 'I want to be a fighter pilot some day.

  

  Nicole Malachowski
  • Father
  • Want
  • Pilot

• My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Funny

• If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Cities
  • Neighborhoods

• So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Environment

• The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Country

• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  

  Chad Harbach