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 -
This was a time when I intentionally failed to drop bread crumbs for my return journey; instead, I ate them.
André Aciman
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
Parker Posey -
That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.
Morten Tyldum -
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz -
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