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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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks -
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 -
In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
Harlan Coben -
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
Fran Drescher
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.
Fred Willard -
I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
Kiesa Rae Ellestad -
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.
Paul Taylor -
We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.
John Bevere -
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