Dani Shapiro Quotes
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
