Ariel Pink Quotes

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

Ariel Pink

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• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • City
  • Child

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• A lot of people don't like me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Me
  • Like

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Business
  • Me
  • Ideology

• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Giving
  • Nice
  • Present

• A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Book
  • Night
  • Stand

• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  

  William Blake
  • Wind
  • Vain
  • Atoms

• Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Children
  • Abuse

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Page

• Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!

  

  Bradley James
  • Up
  • World
  • Nature

• If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying