Dani Shapiro Quotes
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.Dani Shapiro
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
Gail Porter -
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
Tea Obreht -
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt -
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
Wanda Sykes -
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
Carla Bruni
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
Hal Sparks -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
Adam DeVine -
My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
Octavia Spencer -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper -
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
Larry David -
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Vera Wang -
Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
Dan Quinn -
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion -
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
A. R. Rahman
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
Davy Jones The Monkees -
It's so easy to play us guys that I hate to give away secrets to women because I know they'll use them. But OK, if you just simply don't give a guy the time of day, every once in awhile, it just makes us more like 'What do we do?' Men are developed to conquer. When we can't seem to conquer, we stay in it no matter what.
Jamie Foxx -
The greatest sin is carelessness.
Linda Ronstadt -
I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
Dani Shapiro