Keith Gessen Quotes
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
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She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
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Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
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I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.
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One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.
