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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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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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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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
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No author ever spar'd a brother.
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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.
