Lynsey Addario Quotes
I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.
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“Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.
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At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.
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The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
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Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
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I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
