Dana Goldstein Quotes
I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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I'd like to do a play in New York.
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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
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I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
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I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.
