Chad Harbach Quotes
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
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Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
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The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.
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There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.
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I am used to moving homes in football, and it seems to be a recurring theme in my career.
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If you're interested in a 'Teen Vogue' internship, take note: it's not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.
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Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
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I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
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Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
