Dana Spiotta Quotes
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.Dana Spiotta
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
Gabby Douglas -
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Waylon Jennings -
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
Maajid Nawaz -
In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
Karen Salmansohn -
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
J. R. Smith -
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose -
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein -
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
Wang Jianlin -
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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Tramp dirt down
George Galloway -
So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.
Olga Fonda -
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
John Cusack -
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Meir Kahane -
He got himself involved. It wasn't so much anything we did specifically ? we did really the same things we've been doing. He found ways to get his hands on the ball.
Allen Iverson -
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Dana Spiotta