Norman Rush Quotes

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • You
  • Like
  • Working

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• I do not have very much office experience.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Office

• There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Like
  • See

• My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Long
  • English

• Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Business

• Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Search

• To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Work
  • Book

• Bergdorf Goodman is positioned at the very top of the luxury pyramid, and I think that as we go through this next phase of renovation, we're going to elevate it even further.

  

  Karen Katz

• Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'

  

  Bridget Kelly
  • People
  • Why

• Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Experience
  • History
  • Black

• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  

  Eva Figes
  • Fashion
  • Horror
  • Represents

• I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Father
  • Always
  • Chill

• I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Character
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

  

  Norman Rush
  • Breathe
  • Characters
  • Novels