Walter Kirn Quotes
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.Walter Kirn
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
Fiona Shaw -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
Yvonne Strahovski -
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface -
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam -
I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
Tamsin Egerton -
I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
Yancy Butler -
In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
Victoria Osteen
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
Kate Chopin -
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks -
There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
Nathan Myhrvold -
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson -
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Yann Martel -
Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
Zhang Jindong
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We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
Chogyam Trungpa -
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra Modi -
My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.
Jenny Han -
I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!
Astrid S -
In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
Mark Parker -
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
Walter Kirn