Andre Aciman Quotes

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

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• I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Hair
  • Kid
  • Tough

• I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Success
  • Education

• I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • God
  • Believe
  • Same

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Why
  • Government

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Real
  • Art
  • Soul

• Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • You
  • Ignorance
  • Embrace

• I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Things

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Speaking

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Brain
  • Use
  • Both

• I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.

  

  Ben Peek
  • Real
  • Money
  • Search

• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Write
  • Ambition
  • Four

• I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Time
  • Done

• One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.

  

  John G. D. Clark
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Time
  • Fear