Dani Shapiro Quotes
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.Dani Shapiro
Quotes to Explore
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart -
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan -
I was always taken in and out of school.
Dakota Johnson
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck -
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
Orhan Pamuk -
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
Randa Haines -
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
Tahl Raz
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo -
I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of exercise! I always remind myself that men appreciate a womanly shape and some curves!
Abbey Clancy -
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
Vince McMahon -
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky -
I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
Daniel Cormier -
I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
Ed Sheeran
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli -
I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.
Frida Gustavsson -
I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
Amy Poehler -
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
Henry David Thoreau -
Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.
Haruki Murakami -
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
Dani Shapiro