George Saunders Quotes
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
George Saunders
Quotes to Explore
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
Hansika Motwani
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
Edgar Wright
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
Larry David
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
Omari Hardwick
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
Katee Sackhoff
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
Tana French
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
Taylor Negron
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
Jackie Chan
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I love putting people to work of color.
Magic Johnson
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
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It's sad that so many people feel they need to alter their image. I think there is something really beautiful about ageing naturally.
Tuppence Middleton
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I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.
Geoffrey Hinton
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We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?
Eliza Griswold
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
J. G. Holland
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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
George Saunders
