Ronan Farrow Quotes
A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.
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You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.
