Kelly Marie Tran Quotes

I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.

Kelly Marie Tran

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• I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Been

• I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Doctor

• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Tears
  • Smell

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Football

• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Conceptual

• To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Together
  • Man

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Necessary

• Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Character
  • Growth
  • Facts

• The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Interesting
  • New
  • Most

• In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • History
  • Rome
  • Italy

• As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Change
  • Dreaming
  • Novelist

• I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Work

• You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Done
  • Rock
  • Star

• Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • History
  • Slavery
  • Effect

• I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran