Davy Rothbart Quotes

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

Davy Rothbart

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Friendly

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • New
  • Cute

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Doing
  • Champion

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Want
  • Step
  • Brand

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
  • Wrong

• I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Think
  • Dreams

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Words
  • Random
  • Liar

• Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter - you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Play
  • Gay

• The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • People
  • Want
  • Sometimes