Ben Fountain Quotes
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.Ben Fountain
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
Fede Alvarez -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
Pablo Sandoval -
I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
Harley Viera-Newton -
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher -
Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
Laetitia Casta -
I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
Jackie Gleason
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
Eddie Murphy -
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
Oprah Winfrey -
If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
Daniel Boulud -
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
I have a very short attention span.
Frances McDormand -
I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
Rafael dos Anjos
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith -
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
I love the London vibe. I get so much love from London that I never had from other places. It's crazy. The people there understand music so much more.
Kaytranada -
It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.
Marshall Goldsmith -
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
Ben Fountain