Daniel Kehlmann Quotes

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

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• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • True
  • Age

• Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • Death
  • Parents

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fear
  • Role
  • Plays

• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Fun
  • Hate
  • Successful

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Discipline

• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.

  

  James Carville
  • Challenge

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Responsibility
  • Identity

• A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Made
  • Numbers
  • Size

• Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Terrible