Andre Dubus III Quotes

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

Andre Dubus III

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• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Trust
  • Said

• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • House
  • Couple
  • Break

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • First
  • Step
  • Brand

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Guilt

• It is impossible that Christendom finds its peace in God's will, if the priesthood is not being called to order.

  

  Jan Hus
  • God
  • Peace

• Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

  

  Betty Smith
  • Real
  • She
  • True

• And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

  

  Brian Michael Bendis
  • Art
  • Book

• Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Art