David Bezmozgis Quotes

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

David Bezmozgis

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• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Favor

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Career
  • Very
  • Short

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Future

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Everything
  • Something
  • Once

• Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Going

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Lost
  • Everyone

• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Words
  • Friendship
  • Solitude

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Living
  • Year

• All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Parents

• I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • Life
  • Reality

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Wisdom

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Rock
  • Fighting

• When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Home
  • Makeup
  • Teenager

• In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Experience
  • Emotion
  • Guarded